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Markets are focused on uncertainty in Brazil and Mexico. We assess the impact of potential policy surprises, using our BoP Nowcast and positioning toolkits. Low current account deficits pose limited risk, but in Mexico heavier positioning than in Brazil could amplify the impact of negative policy surprises.
Policy dissonance has been a key factor in market volatility, yield curve flattening; Growing concern about the longer-term implications of a U.S. government shutdown; If bank stocks are a bellwether, signals are not reassuring; China deleveraging on the back burner; rising refinancing risk for U.S. corporates
Global debt has grown by over 12% (or $27 trillion) since 2016, reaching $244 trillion (318% of GDP) in Q3 2018.
Christopher Kiew-Smith of the Abu Dhabi Global Market joins FRT to discuss the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN), an initiative by the ADGM and 11 other regulatory agencies to build a framework to share information and trial cross-border innovative solutions in the financial industry.
We assess the impact of potential policy surprises, using our BoP Nowcast and positioning toolkits. Low current account deficits pose limited risk, but in Mexico heavier positioning than in Brazil could amplify the impact of negative policy surprises.
Not much has changed in the macro landscape, but markets have shifted to price an end to the hiking cycle. In effect, the Fed has become a casualty of the trade war, and further tightening (which we expect) is now harder.
The Basel Committee on Bank Supervision finalised the Basel III Market Risk standard on January 14, 2019.
On January 7, 2019, the IIF Senior Accounting Group (SAG) submitted to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) its comments on the Discussion Paper on Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity.
In this forerunner to deeper IIF analysis that will follow in 2019, we look at some potential scenarios where innovative disruption could have an asymmetric effect on banks’ balance sheets.
China is seeing the rise of a new kind of conglomerate, companies that occupy unprecedented roles in the world's second largest economy. With business
Mentions of tariffs, trade and political uncertainty by Beige Book respondents have declined from the peak in October. New to the January Beige Book: two mentions of the government shutdown and the effect on agriculture.
China’s total debt to GDP saw an increase in 2018 largely driven by non-financial corporates.
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