Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Study Finds New Rules Necessary To Rein In Risky Bank Trading

Study Finds New Rules Necessary To Rein In Risky Bank Trading: A new study from economists Arnoud Boot at the University of Amsterdam and Lev Ratnovski at the International Monetary Fund shows that banks trade too much, so new regulation is necessary to keep the world’s biggest banks from posing a risk to the entire global economy. Boot and Ratnovski’s study found that excess capital generated [...]/p