by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | May 20, 2024 | Risk Report
We at The Risk Report have been exploring entities that by all accounts (haha!) act like banks but aren’t. This week Forbes and a few others highlighted that while these companies largely are exempt from regulation, and market that as an upside, they are also very...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | May 6, 2024 | Risk Report
A bank has a credit card portfolio. It is happy about that. Fees are good and higher rates mean more interest coming in. There is just one little bummer, and that is the capital it has to hold in reserve incase any cardholders default. A private credit firm has a...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Apr 29, 2024 | Climate Risk, Risk Report
As you might have noticed, there are differences in the approach to climate change between the US and Europe. In the US, the political discourse on the subject tends to set the pace of progress whereas the Europeans seem to agree more on the interpretation of...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Apr 22, 2024 | Risk Report
It’s unfair to always pick on broccoli because it is healthy and (with copious amounts of cheese) also delicious, but for the sake of the example, please let it slide this time. Say that we have all been promised dessert (interest rate cuts) if we finish that pesky...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Apr 15, 2024 | Climate Risk, Risk Report
A few weeks ago, we reported that the SEC had finally settled on a rule for companies to disclose a small part of their carbon emissions. It seemed like a baby step in the direction of where the rest of the world has been heading for years, namely a global net zero...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Apr 8, 2024 | Risk Report
It is true that not everything that went wrong at SVB, Signature Bank, and FirstRepublic Bank can be extrapolated to the rest of the regional bank sector. It is, however, also true that once there is a slight whiff of bank run in the air,every measure taken as a...
