Commentary
Journal Commentaries
Keep Regulation Functional (October 2008)
CSFME’s Executive Director Ed Blount interviews SEC Chairman Chris Cox.
American Banking Association Banking Journal
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-187494664/keep-functional-regulation-how-financial-regulation
The Bear Market Posse, or Counterparty Risk Management during the Recent Turmoil (Sept. 2008)
by Ed Blount
The RMA Journal, v91n1, 28-32, 5 pages Sep 2008.
Searching for New Paradigms at BIS (July 2008)
by Ed Blount
Unexpected deficiencies in bank capital after recent market turmoil has regulators rethinking aspects of Basel II and “value at risk.”
American Banking Association Banking Journal
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-181991450/searching-for-new-paradigms-at-bis-market-turmoil
Will Basel II Affect The Competitive Landscape? (September 2003)
By Ed Blount
Newly elected Basel Committee Chairman Caruana, Governor of the Bank of Spain, gives his views on the revised Basel capital accord, relative to its potential effects on competition and risk management in banking markets.
American Banking Association Banking Journal
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-108008773/will-basel-ii-affect-the-competitive-landscape-the
CSFME Commentaries
Repo is Far from “Unregulated”
Repo is very much in the news lately, even coming up on the radar screen of the New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson. Morgenson penned an article in the Times’ September 14, 2013 issue, After a Financial Flood, Pipes Are Still Broken, in which she worries that despite new rules on derivatives, the repo market remains largely unregulated.