In a recent study, the US Federal Reserve came to a shocking conclusion that did not dominate the headlines of the financial press: the regulatory reforms that targeted large banks after the financial crisis and aimed to assess their risk more strictly did not reduce the risk to the solvency of the banking system. In …
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Gold became real money again on July 1st.
As of July 1, 2025, gold is officially classified as a Tier 1, high-quality liquid asset (HQLA) under Basel III regulations – This means that U.S. banks can count physical gold at 100% of its market value as part of their core capital reserves. For decades, many have rightly argued that gold is not just …
Risk of another bank run – How is the US banking system hiding losses on government bonds?
Accounting rules are designed to enhance transparency and facilitate accurate financial valuation, but they can also mask an organisation’s true financial health. Today, a common accounting trick could be to cover up systemic risks in the US banking system by hiding the significant depreciation of commercial banks’ bond portfolios. When a company buys bonds such …
Banks’ exposure to government debt will bring economic collapse
Crises are never caused by excessive exposure of businesses and individuals to risky assets. Crises can only happen when investors, governments and households accumulate risk in assets where most people believe there is little to no risk – namely government bonds. The recent sell-off and the underlying trend What does the recent sell-off in US …
Citizens, be careful, in Revolut and Viva Wallet, are the funds sufficient?
Let’s be careful… we raise the issue of capital adequacy for Revolut and Viva Wallet in the event of an adverse scenario and what risks consumers – depositors may take out of ignorance. Revolut Revolut has been involved in fraud many times in the past and a lot of money has been lost. A search …
Currency War Intensifies – The Cheap Yuan and Why Secondary Sanctions Scared China
The battle that will not decide the outcome of the currency war – Why did China’s banks comply with the sanctions? With the threat of secondary sanctions keenly felt by Chinese banks, Washington appears to be temporarily winning a battle – but in an economic war it is decisively losing. The resilience of the Russian …
The problem of shadow lenders is getting bigger, possibly leading to a new financial crisis
The occasion for this specific analysis is the recent statement about the main areas of concern of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) that was issued by the head of the global supervisor Klaas Knot. In particular, this statement focused on vulnerabilities in non-banking financial intermediation (NBFI), the so-called “shadow lenders”. More specifically, “Vulnerabilities in non-banking …
The FED is on alert: In case a banking domino of bankruptcies begins
It seems that in the US the time has come for a wave of consolidation in the banking industry. A key program that kept US banks afloat ended last month, and everyone knew what that would mean. By the last Friday of April, the FDIC had taken Republic Bank’s assets and had already arranged to …
Taxpayers should not have to pay for the collapse of systemic banks
The lessons learned from the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 seem not to have become commonplace for the operation of the financial system. The turmoil of the past year has shown that further progress is needed in a number of areas to ensure that banks are never too big to fail. It is noted that …
Why is it a criminal mistake to bail out bankrupt banks?
Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank collapsed like dominoes between March and April 2023. The United States Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) proceeded with a previous intervention in order to stop the transmission of the crisis to the regional banks and to the …