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Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... credit to the US...for now, they are becoming less so. Will USA Inc. be the next institution that would be presumed too big to fail or will it go the way of Lehmann Brothers?

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... sweeping financial reforms in the US, calls for tighter financial regulation in the UK and powers to break up 'too big to fail' banks in Switzerland. Naturally, financial markets became concerned for it introduces another uncertainty. How wide and far-reaching ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... Timmy (US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) has unveiled a plan imposing tougher rules and regulations on 'too big to fail' or systemically critical US institutions. In his words, 'Over the past 18 months, we have faced the most severe global financial ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Because AIG has a finger dipped in a multiple of other institutions scattered around the globe, it is considered too big to fail. And so US administration, fiscal and monetary authorities are faced with no other option but to keep throwing money at it ...

In defense of Citi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... aftershock of Lehman bankruptcy served as a concrete and painful example of what happens when an institution that is too big to fail fails. Lehman must be eyeing Citigroup's bail-out with green eyes. If only some other large financial institution went ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... Swanson said the collapse of Wall Street partly stemmed from the emergence of financial institutions that became "too big to fail". He predicts that new regulation and policies will ensure this will no longer be the case after the bail-out.

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... moral hazard is at best. Previously, only central banks (the Fed) were underwriting companies that are deemed too big to fail. This time, National Governments and investment regulators - alone or in concert with others -- are in on the act. It is akin ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... or be taken over. Investors have already factored in the possibility of governments nationalizing many other 'too big to fail' institutions. Investors have already factored in the longer term problem of recouping the massive amount of bailout money thrown ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... dangers of what the market calls 'moral hazard' - when the government steps in to save institutions that are deemed 'too big to fail.' The government may be able to bail out one or two 'big' institutions at one time, but when it becomes an avalanche ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... dangers of what the market calls 'moral hazard' - when the government steps in to save institutions that are deemed 'too big to fail.' The government may be able to bail out on or two 'big' institutions at one time, but when it becomes an avalanche ...