On 14 October 2008, the BOJ entered the bailout arena in full force with its “Introduction of Measures regarding Money Market Operations to Ensure Stability in Financial Markets.” Among the four “temporary” initiatives announced, the last one was the most crucial one… and remains the most crucial one today. “Expansion…
Category:Banks
THE JPY CARRY TRADE IMPLOSION CONTAGION IS ALREADY SPREADING INTO THE UK
While doing my best to untangle the mess of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), in particular, to figure out which financial institution/s could be in danger after what happened on Monday this week, I stumbled upon something very interesting. Please have a look. This chart represents the Bank of England…
THIS IS NOT 1987, 2000, 2008 OR 2020, BUT A WHOLE NEW MARKET MONSTER
These days there are a lot of comparisons being made with what happened in previous financial crises that unfolded after times of irrational exuberance and reckless monetary policy, but many are failing to grasp how the current situation is hardly comparable to what happened in the past for many reasons….
WHAT BULL MARKET? ALL-TIME HIGH DESPAIR AMONG BANKERS
Three months ago, before Q1-24 banks’ earnings season kicked off, I collected all feedback gathered from bank insiders in “GET READY, INSIDERS TOLD ME A HORRIBLE BANKS’ EARNINGS SEASON IS ABOUT TO BEGIN”. However, banks put on a great show of accounting acrobatics and magic tricks to make sure they…
IS WARREN BUFFETT STARTING TO BE WORRIED ABOUT BANK OF AMERICA’S SOLVENCY?
Bank of America (#BAC) published its last quarterly financial earnings on July 16, and from the 17th to the 19th, Warren Buffett sold ~34m shares of BAC, cashing out ~1.5bn USD (Buffett’s Berkshire Sells Bank of America Stock Worth $1.5 Billion). Yes, Uncle Warren still holds almost 1 billion BAC…
GOLDMAN SACHS Q2-24: WHAT A (RIDICULOUS) FAIRY TALE
A few weeks ago Goldman Sachs (#GS) performed poorly in the #FED annual stress tests, and since then, the bank has been fighting against its regulator’s request to increase the capital being held on the balance sheet (Goldman Sachs faces uphill battle in dispute with Federal Reserve over stress test)….
NOT ONLY IS NORINCHUKIN ABOUT TO LIVE THROUGH THE 2008 NIGHTMARE AGAIN, BUT MANY JAPANESE BANKS ARE IN THE SAME SITUATION
In the article “How Japan’s farmers and fishermen backed the leveraged loan boom” published more than 5 years ago, the FT tried, through the teeth, to sound the alarm on #Norinchukin Bank’s out-of-control buying spree of Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs). The bank was such a key player in the market…
WILL BANKS MANAGE TO HIDE THEIR MOUNTAIN OF LOSSES FOR ONE MORE QUARTER?
The previous quarter, banks truly stretched any possible accounting and regulatory standard to the limit to kick the can down the road, hoping a #FED rate cut could give them some relief. Unfortunately for them, not only did this not happen, but today our dear Jerome Burns reminded everyone that…
WHICH BANKS ARE AT RISK OF GOING BUST IN A LIQUIDITY CRISIS? – EPISODE 2
In September 2023, I addressed for the first time the (nasty) topic of #banks’ balance sheet health in the “This time is not different” post on X. After that, I expanded the analysis to large US and European banks in “WHICH BANKS ARE AT RISK OF GOING BUST IN A…
JAPAN POST BANK IS LIKELY GOING TO BE AN EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM FOR THE BOJ THAN NORINCHUKIN BANK
Today, #Norinchukin Bank is starting to be less of an obscure name compared to more than 7 months ago when the #FED quietly added it to the list of counterparts eligible to access the standing Repo Facility the central bank established with the purpose of dealing with emergency liquidity shortfalls…