FRB: Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey: January 2012
The January 2012 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the supply of, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months. The survey included three sets of special questions: the first set asked banks about lending to firms with European exposures; the second set asked banks about changes in their lending policies on commercial real estate (CRE) loans over the past year; and the third set asked banks about their outlook for credit quality in 2012. This summary is based on responses from 56 domestic banks and 23 U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks.
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Missing Funds at MF Global May Have 'Vaporized'
WSJ.com
Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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Bernanke Beats Obama for Mortgage-Bond Investors
Mortgage-bond investors have been betting that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will do more to aid housing than President Barack Obama.
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Sarkozy's modest financial tax has political aims
Reuters
French President Nicolas Sarkozy promised "shockwaves" with a unilateral tax on some financial transactions, but the modest levy his government outlined on Monday was viewed as a political gesture that will cause few market ructions.
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ICE to Begin Portfolio Margining for Bank Credit Swap Trades
Bloomberg
Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), owner of the world’s largest credit-default swaps clearinghouse, said it received approval to lower its bank members’ cost to guarantee their proprietary positions.
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States to decide this week on mortgage deal
Reuters
State and federal officials are close to a settlement with the largest U.S. banks over mortgage abuses, with states facing an end-of-the-week deadline to decide whether they will sign on, people close to the talks said.
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ECB Opinion on CRD IV
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MF Global Said ‘Never Been Stronger’ a Week Before Failure
Bloomberg
A week before MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, its chief financial officer told Standard & Poor’s in an e-mail that the futures broker had “never been stronger.”
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EU leaders agree on permanent bailout fund
Reuters
EU leaders reached agreement at a summit on Monday on the introduction of a permanent euro zone bailout mechanism from July 2012, with a treaty governing the fund to be signed at a later date, three EU officials told Reuters.
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SunGard Enhances Stream Fail Monitor for Mortgages and Agency Debt
Press Release
SunGard has enhanced its Stream Fail Monitor solution, part of its Stream suite of post-trade solutions, to help financial services firms comply with the expansion of the Treasury Market Practice Group (TMPG) penalties to apply to mortgages and agency debt fails.
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Spain seen heading for recession as economy shrinks
Reuters
Spain's economy looks set to slip into recession after contracting for the first time in two years in the last quarter of 2011, highlighting the challenge for EU leaders as they meet to find ways to boost growth while cutting budgets.
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Fed Pulls Back the Curtain
Barron's
In a historic shift last week, the Federal Reserve removed all mystery about its plans for interest rates, declaring its intent to maintain the current "exceptionally low" target of near zero percent for the key federal-funds rate "at least through late 2014."
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Citi Chairman Parsons Considers a Departure
WSJ.com
Richard D. Parsons, who as chairman of Citigroup Inc. helped steer the bank through its near-death experience in the financial crisis, is considering stepping down after three years in the post, said people familiar with the situation.
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EU Leaders Hold Fiscal Talks
WSJ.com
European Union leaders gathered Monday to finalize accords on tighter fiscal discipline and a permanent bailout fund, even as a looming multibillion-euro debt-restructuring deal for Greece threatened to overshadow the talks.
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France cuts 2012 growth forecast
BBC
France has cut its growth forecast for this year to 0.5% from 1%, Prime Minister Francois Fillon has announced. The revision was made to "take into account the deterioration of the economic situation," he said.
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