An Overview of The Changing Financial-Services Sector: Ayesha Afzal Assistant Professor
An Overview of The Changing Financial-Services Sector: Ayesha Afzal Assistant Professor
An Overview of The Changing Financial-Services Sector: Ayesha Afzal Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Transac5on Costs Search Costs Verica3on Costs Monitoring Costs Enforcement Costs
Debt Instruments New Debt Instruments Listed Amount Listed (in million) 3 3,400.00 3 6,500.00 7 25,256.97 1 3,000.00 4 5,650.18
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Banks hire dull people and train them to be even more dull. If they look conservative, it's only because their loans go bust on rare, very rare occasions. But (...)bankers are not conservative at all. They are just phenomenally skilled at selfdeception by burying the possibility of a large, devastating loss under the rug.
Globaliza;on
creates
interlocking
fragility,
while
reducing
vola;lity
and
giving
the
appearance
of
stability.
We
have
never
lived
before
under
the
threat
of
a
global
collapse.
Financial
Ins;tu;ons
have
been
merging
into
a
smaller
number
of
very
large
banks.
Almost
all
banks
are
interrelated
-
when
one
fails,
they
all
fall.
The
increased
concentra;on
among
banks
seems
to
have
the
eect
of
making
nancial
crises
less
likely,
but
when
they
happen
they
are
more
global
in
scale
and
hit
us
very
hard.
True,
we
now
have
fewer
failures,
but
when
they
occur
.I
shiver
at
the
thought.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan
** Taleb has been credited with making predictions regarding financial crises and making a fortune (over USD 12 Bln) out of the 2008 crisis - Taleb is a visiting professor at Wharton and University of Paris Dauphine