Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Financial Institutions, Government
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Commercial real estate lending become so tough that it caused closing of innumerable banks in the last few years; and more banks collapsing, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is contemplating the new way inevitably, to bundle out the mortgages on hard-to-value commercial assets of these failed banks and sell them back to the private sector [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Economic Updates, Financial Institutions, Government
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
While the precise measures for regulation are still being debated, one of the foremost considerations in the United States appears to be the participation of banks in the interests of hedge funds and private equity consortiums. Clearly outside the traditional activity of a bank, these devices offer commercial banks the opportunity to generate revenue and [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions, Government
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
The past three years has seen the global economy suffer a greater credit crisis than in the Florentine markets of the 12th Century. Certainly the capital markets are still the supreme bastion of wealth in a developed world economy, however in recent times wealth has changed hands from cyclical private wealth investors to others. Circumstances [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions, Government
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The proposition made by some that regulation of the finance industry was already in place through banking regulators standards and SEC reporting standards has some credence due to its truth. However, when banking disclosure requirements are creatures of statute, it is yet a remote manner in which the Federal government has subsidized the capital costs [...]
Posted by Events
Government, Industry Events
Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Hilton – New York | May 23 – May 26
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions, Government
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
In the aftermath of all social tragedy there is a compelling attraction toward drastic action and in that of the Global Financial Crisis it appears that things are no different. After observing the ludicrous risks taken in pre-2008 lending practices, and the remuneration offered those approving such conduct, the ideology of self correcting market forces, [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions, Government
Friday, April 30th, 2010

Inflation is the one foe that is sought to be contained by economic regulators. Officially delegated to a Federal Reserve, inflation targeting is the bane of every Chairman’s existence. Academics have been known to be divided in their views pertaining to the functions of a Central Bank. Some adhere to the opinion that a Central [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Economic Updates, Government
Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Recessions are rarely predictable in shape, but there is no mandate that it be V-shaped. Therefore, the current economic climate plentiful with distressed property, commercial short sales and foreclosures, needs to be carefully nurtured to sponsor confidence in the broader economy. It is this reality that would prevent the immediate enactment of statutory regulation curtailing [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions, Government
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
As the United Kingdom head toward an election in June 2010, some may recall the end of an era instituted by British Prime Minister Ms Margret Thatcher some 30 years ago. A keen advocate of Thatcherism, US President Ronald Reagan also implemented the deregulation of the financial markets and relied on rational expectations theory to [...]
Posted by John Loup
Economic Updates, Government
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
The commercial foreclosure properties are a direct consequence of the bad loans. Though a lot of regulations have been imposed by the government for issuing of loans, a lot of defaults are being reported and this is creating a wave of foreclosure properties. Recently the U.S president has allocated a fund of $30 billion for [...]