Posts tagged 'WEF'

Ten per cent of self-identified decision-makers don’t want to talk to you even if the global economic recovery hangs in the balance

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company.

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| Jan 23 14:41 | Comment |

Commenting on the survey findings, Bank of America’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said, “Leaders around the world recognize the value and need for greater global collaboration.”

Moynihan displays a certain lack of concern about the 10 per cent of “global decision-makers” who were found to be riding the Steamboat Lonewolf up the Wantspacetothinkippi River in a single occupancy first class cabin, quietly hatching plans to take over the world, according to a survey commissioned by the bank. Read more

The gender gap is closing…slowly

Paul Murphy is the founding editor of FT Alphaville.

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| Oct 24 2012 10:11 | Comment |

Do explore this gender heat map, courtesy of the World Economic Forum… Read more

Turner: more power for regulators

| Jan 28 2010 04:52 | Comment |

Britain’s top financial regulator called on Wednesday for authorities to be given more powers to control credit levels to prevent asset price bubbles. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Lord Turner, who chairs the UK’s FSA, said regulators need a “new set of macro-prudential tools – not just interest rates” and suggested also that the UK create a macro-prudential committee to monitor credit levels. Read more

Big banks urge co-ordination

| Jan 27 2010 05:03 | Comment |

The world’s big banks on Tuesday warned that unless countries adopted a co-ordinated approach to banking reforms, their ability to lend would be damaged and the financial system would revert to pre-crisis conditions. On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, top bankers on their way to the Swiss ski resort deplored the fragmentation of regulatory initiatives that has seen bonus taxes introduced in the UK and France, a US levy on banks, and the proposed “Volcker rule” limiting banks’ size and activities. Read more

Bankers take ‘soft’ approach

| Jan 25 2010 05:02 | Comment |

Top Wall Street bankers attending the World Economic Forum  this week in the Swiss town of Davos will use the meeting to lobby regulators against Barack Obama’s plan to curb banks’ size and trading activity and break-up big institutions. Executives said they would push their case quietly to avoid giving the US president the “fight” he promised last week. Alistair Darling, UK chancellor, at the weekend rejected the US idea of limiting banks’ size and activities. But billionaire financier George Soros welcomed the plan. Read more