Banking Credit-Rating Downgrades Suggest Problems for the US Banking Sector Are Far from Over by internationalbanker October 17, 2023 The US banking sector had a bad month in August, with several banks receiving downgrades from credit-rating agencies, capping off … Continue Reading October 17, 2023 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Banking US Sovereign-Rating Downgrade Exposes Significant Debt, Fiscal and Governance Vulnerabilities by internationalbanker October 10, 2023 The world’s predominant economy recently received a sovereign-rating downgrade from one of the top three credit-rating agencies, concerned with the … Continue Reading October 10, 2023 1 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Finance Why Mexico’s Shadow Lenders Have Fallen Out of Favour with Investors by internationalbanker October 10, 2022 During the pandemic, investors viewed shadow banking as a sound, low-risk option for advancing credit to vulnerable segments of Mexico, … Continue Reading October 10, 2022 1 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Finance Can the Laos Economy Be Rescued from the Brink of Default? by internationalbanker July 21, 2022 Inflation is dealing crippling blows to countries worldwide, but few are suffering as much as Laos, which is also struggling … Continue Reading July 21, 2022 1 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Brokerage Investing Trends for 2022 by internationalbanker January 24, 2022 Although Omicron has investors on edge as a new year kicks off, sabotaging forecasts pinned on the pandemic’s welcome end, … Continue Reading January 24, 2022 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Finance The Success of Fiscal-Stimulus Programmes by internationalbanker July 14, 2021 The upheaval spawned by COVID-19 has forced governments’ hands to wield counter-offensive measures, and one popular weapon has been fiscal … Continue Reading July 14, 2021 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Finance It Is High Time to Implement a Major Reform of Credit-Rating Agencies by internationalbanker June 16, 2021 Monopolies pose dangers, and the one held by the world’s three top credit-rating agencies (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fitch) is … Continue Reading June 16, 2021 2 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Finance Is a Strong Economic Recovery on the Horizon for New Zealand? by internationalbanker March 31, 2021 A visit to New Zealand is a step back to a time before the pandemic, when large crowds still congregated … Continue Reading March 31, 2021 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Finance What a COVID-19 Vaccine Means for the Global Economic Recovery by internationalbanker December 21, 2020 “For the first time since the pandemic began, there is now hope for a brighter future.” That was the assessment … Continue Reading December 21, 2020 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail