Like it or not, new bank regulations are almost sure to make their way into the system on both sides of the Atlantic. Those massive financial services supermarkets got carried away with how much risk they thought they could properly manage and now safeguards need to be put in place to avoid a repeat. The outrage at some of the UK’s corporate citizens has been fierce. The message is clear- banks should pay for their sins. In fact, the price tag for their sins could be as high as £2 billion to provide a better liquidity cushion. Time to celebrate a job well done. The banks will pay for their sins and innocent bystanders such as their customers will reap the benefits.
“This is not a cost to your shareholders in the long term, this is a cost to your customers,” (liquidity policy manager at the Financial Services Authority David) Morgan said in a speech. “You will pass these costs on to your customers.”
That ought to teach them.
FSA Says Bank Customers May Pay Under Tougher Liquidity Rules [Bloomberg]
Two billion?
BofA loses more than that every time Ken Lewis spends fifteen minutes writing his Farewell Address instead of juggling flaming balls of toxic MBS.
Confidence, I does not haz it.
I’d love to hear an Obama administration official admit that this is the case for regulation that the USG would add. The figurative brick that would be dropped out the hindparts of his political base would be one for the ages.
1 Greg, 2 Greg, 3 Greg, 4, 4 Greg 3 Greg no Greg, no more
-B Rabbit
Greg,
Step into my office – we need to talk.
Bess
Greg,
Step into my office – we need to talk.
Bess
Greg,
Step into my office – we need to talk.
Bess
Greg,
I’m going to come over for a “good time” and I will surprise you with a cattle prod through the glory hole.
- Fan o the Macke who has had enough
@4
It’s one thing to mock greg. But when you start impersonating Bess (even obviously faking it), Don’t be surprised if an arm reaches through your computer screen and strangles you. It’d be sad to find some poor soul at his desk on the trade floor with a hole in his center monitor slouched over dead.
Greg,
Don’t shit on my yogurt and call it a sundae.
Greg-
I am going to hand-feed you potato chips with olestra and steal all your toilet paper.
Jeff macke
@8
Hey! Some1 already used the “make Greg need to use the toilet and take all his toilet paper” meme/gag. You know Greg jokes are getting a bit stale when toilet humor is getting recycled.
-not Greg…. but man Jeff Macke is an idiot
@9 = homo
@9 is Greg’s pre Op Tranny daddy