Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s Blog

Gillian Tett, a reporter with FT  mentioned the following incident in a recent column.. ” A decade ago, I was working as a reporter in Tokyo when I was asked to investigate the impact of Japanese-style quantitative easing. Back then, the Bank of Japan was pouring gazillions of yen into the money markets and politicians [...]

The world has changed. After years of benign economic conditions, the four horsemen of financial apocalypse – credit crunch, recession, volatility and uncertainty – are blazing a trail across the horizon. Executives must now reassess their organisation’s agenda and communicate it clearly. If history is a guide, most will frame the current conditions as a [...]

There may be no end in sight to the financial crisis, but one consequence is already clear: over- the-counter markets will never be the same again. The crisis has brought complex structured financial products out of deep obscurity and exposed their weaknesses.  In particular, credit derivatives – which allow investors to make bets on the [...]