Now that Australia’s banks have had a number of years to heavily sell hybrid securities to retail investors, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has confirmed that such securities will be the first bank liabilities written off—“b
The leading institutions of the bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system issued a report on 16 August, warning that there are no mechanisms in place at this time that can prevent a blow-out of the $600 trillion-plus global financial derivatives bu
Australia’s big banks are careening along a cliff’s edge at breakneck speeds with ordinary investors strapped to their bumpers as human shock absorbers.
Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane this weekend, the banker in charge of the bail-in agenda has announced the finalised plan to prop up Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks, for agreement at the summit.
The interim report of David Murray’s Financial System Inquiry, released 15 July, pushes the case for supposedly solving the problem of too-big-to-fail (TBTF) by implementing “bail-in”—the system which includes confiscating customer deposits to pro
