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[No. 199] More on Banks and Capital Requirements

If you are (even remotely) interested in the ongoing debate on capital requirements for banks in Basel 3, I highly recommend reading this post by Anat Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. The post is extremely readable and provides a compelling argument for (significantly) higher capital requirements for banks. To see Admati deliver her argument in a Bloomberg interview, see the embedded video.

 

Anat Admati Says Banks Should Increase Equity Capital: Video
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[No. 1] Introduction of The Defining Tension!

Welcome!

This first post marks the launch of The Defining Tension, the Dutch blog that provides perspectives on developments in corporate law (with a focus on corporate governance), insolvency law and related litigation, in- and outside the Netherlands.

You can find out who we are by clicking on our names in the upper-left corner of TDT.

More information about TDT's purpose and TDT's partnership with the Dutch Journal of Company Law (Ondernemingsrecht) can be found here and here.

We welcome discussion at TDT, and applaud honest and intellectual responses to entries on the blog or individual contributions to the blog. More information about interaction with and on TDT can be found here.

We will kick-off with a joint and - in view of the occasion - in-depth post on February 1, 2009. Stay tuned!