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The Economist: Banking

Auction-rate securities:
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:49:44 -0000
Once again, banks are buckling under pressure from an attorney-general “LIKE a Moroccan bazaar” was how William Galvin, Massachusetts’s secretary of state, described the market for auction-rate securities (ARS), whose collapse has left thousands of investors stuck with debt they had assumed they could easily sell. But there is a difference. Getting a stallholder in Fez to take back damaged goods is a tall order. Banks, on the other hand, have moved quickly under pressure to buy back the paper they flogged, in what looks like the biggest-ever forced bail-out of Main Street by Wall Street.In normal markets, auction-rate debt looked highly seductive. With the interest rate reset weekly or monthly in auctions, cities, student-loan trusts and the like could issue long-term debt while benefiting from lower short-term rates. Buyers got a near-cash product that paid higher yields than money-market funds. Brokers typically creamed off up to 0.25% of a market that swelled to $330 billion by last summer. When demand began to subside late last year, dealers bought the debt themselves to prevent auctions from failing. But most pulled out in February as the failures became endemic. New York’s Andrew Cuomo and other attorneys-general took up the cudgel—in an echo of Eliot Spitzer’s post-dotcom crusade. UBS, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch have agreed to buy back more than a combined $41 billion of ARS and pay at least $250m in fines. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley were reportedly close to a settlement on August 13th. ...
Bank strategies:
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:49:44 -0000
Don’t blame banks’ business models for the credit crisis. Blame their managementFROM “you and us” to “us and them”. UBS, a dishevelled Swiss bank, announced on August 12th that it was stepping away from its integrated model and establishing its investment-banking, wealth-management and asset-management divisions as stand-alone entities. UBS’s management scoffs at the idea that this will lead to the sale of the investment bank, but a break-up is precisely what many inside and outside the bank think is needed. The problem, they say, is that big banks like UBS and America’s Citigroup have got the wrong model. It is true that risk-loving investment bankers and stability-prizing private bankers make unlikely bedfellows. The recklessness of UBS’s investment bankers has made the bank the credit crunch’s biggest total loss-maker to date. Clients of its private bank are spooked: the wealth-management arm suffered an overall loss of deposits in the second quarter. Swiss regulators are also unnerved and want a more robust capital regime for the country’s big banks. ...
Northern Rock:
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:59:56 -0000
The mortgage lender’s cash call is an ominous sign for all British banksSTUDENTS of politics (and more than a few politicians) know only too well the old dictum about lies that are repeated often enough becoming truth. Those foolish enough to believe it should take a look at the sorry tale of Northern Rock, a troubled mortgage lender that failed last September when it ran out of cash. For almost a year afterwards Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, repeated, mantra-like, that this was a sound bank brought low by events from afar, and that taxpayers would get back every one of the billions of pounds they lent it. On August 5th Mr Darling was mugged by reality when Northern Rock came to him, cap in hand, again. This time the bank wanted help in shoring up its balance-sheet, which is crumbling thanks to a mortgage book that looks worse by the day. The government, which is still owed some GBP21 billion ($41 billion) by the hapless bank, has agreed to convert as much as GBP3 billion of the debt (as well as some GBP400m in preference shares) into ordinary shares. This urgent need for capital should make those who still think taxpayers will get all their money back think twice. So should those who dare to hope that Britain’s banks have seen the worst of the credit crisis. ...
Bank losses:
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:59:56 -0000
Many bank bosses should count themselves lucky still to be in a jobBANKING sells itself as a cut-throat industry, lavish in its rewards but steadfast in its treatment of underperformers. A year into the credit crisis, it has too often been steadfast in its rewards and lavish in its approach to failure. The three banks that have suffered the heftiest losses since credit first crunched—Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and UBS—have all swept out the old management since their problems surfaced. But of the ten banks to have spilt the most red ink over the past year (see table), five have the same chief executives in place. ...
Venezuela:
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:59:56 -0000
Hugo Chavez tightens the state’s grip on politics and the economyFOR much of the past eight months, since suffering defeat in a referendum on changing the constitution, Hugo Chavez has seemed to be on the defensive. Abroad, he repaired strained relations with Colombia’s president and with Spain’s King Juan Carlos. At home, he backpedalled on unpopular measures, such as a new socialist educational curriculum and a draconian intelligence law. He met local businessmen in June and urged them to invest, in the hope that increased production would damp inflation of over 30%. But with Mr Chavez moderation rarely lasts, and he has now veered left again. On July 31st he announced that the government would buy the country’s third-biggest bank, Banco de Venezuela, owned by Spain’s Grupo Santander. Days later, the government published 26 decrees, many of which mimic the constitutional changes rejected in the referendum. Some of them will further tighten the state’s stranglehold on the economy. ...
Meinl Bank:
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:10:21 -0000
Some Jersey-knit structures enrage activist investorsCorrection to this articleTHE image of Austria’s financial markets continues to corrode. Just weeks after the conclusion of a trial over improper use of funds at Bawag, a local bank, another scandal is gathering pace. ...

 

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