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Markets take a breather after a frenetic end to 2023
The solid end to 2023 for financial markets has influenced a positive start to 2024.
European bank capital requirements – steady as it goes
The ECB's annual SREP results revealed a resilient European banking sector. Jakub Lichwa discusses that despite facing headwinds in 2023, the overall scores for 106 institutions remained steady at 2.6, with 71% of these institutions maintaining their scores, while 15% showed improvement.
Beyond The Subprime Crisis: Decrypting the European and US RMBS Markets
The tightening of monetary policy has given rise to concerns about the health of mortgage markets due to higher interest rates , leading to questions about the expected resilience of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).
Why the bond rally means staying in cash could cost you even more
The direction of monetary policy rates going forward is more clear, following the Federal Reserve's release of its new summary of economic projections and the dovish remarks of Jerome Powell.
Squeezed: The upshot of the Fed’s quantitative tightening program
Following October’s encouraging US CPI report and the subsequent comments from Federal Reserve officials, financial markets now anticipate that the Fed has completed its rate hiking cycle having reached terminal rates.
China: It is now imperative the government sorts out its problems
The Chinese economy has experienced a lot of volatility in 2023.