by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 3, 2024 | Risk Report
Don’t you just love it when, at the end of a soap opera season, it turns out that the four side-stories are connected, and the manager from the corner store is the long-lost twin* of the heir to the billion-dollar empire, and they will now have to share the fortune...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jul 22, 2024 | Risk Report
Back in 1967, there was a Danish variety show featuring a song called The Swings and The Carousels. The chorus ran along the lines of: We need to earn on the swings What we lost on the carousels Referring to the old amusement park, Tivoli, in Copenhagen, it is...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jul 15, 2024 | Risk Report
Banks should hold enough capital. That is hard to argue with no matter if you are on Team Regulator or Team Bank. Where it gets a little more contentious is how much is enough. Burned by the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, regulators far and wide tend to equate...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jun 24, 2024 | Risk Report
Many of us know the chain of events set in motion, when you tell a toddler in very specific terms what they should NOT do. Sometimes financial markets act in the same way. In this year’s yen episodes, the grown-up is the Japanese top foreign-exchange official, Masato...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jun 17, 2024 | Risk Report
Yes, I am that old.* Sometimes, when a group of big economies have been through some tough times together, but then find they are recovering at different speeds, they might have to start lowering their interest rates before the biggest one is ready. That doesn’t mean...
