{"id":17736,"date":"2019-01-14T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/?p=17736"},"modified":"2019-01-14T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T07:37:20","slug":"big-four-banks-protest-against-higher-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/big-four-banks-protest-against-higher-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Big four banks protest against higher capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The big four banks are trying to convince the prudential regulator to reconsider its proposal to force them to raise an additional $75 billion of so-called Tier II bonds to meet &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; capital requirements.&#8221; ~ Jonathan Shapiro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/business\/banking-and-finance\/big-banks-lobby-apra-over-75b-too-big-to-fail-capital-requirements-20190111-h19zb1\">Australian Financial Review<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is APRA thinking? They are deluding themselves if they think that Tier II bonds will shore up capital.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the panic in financial markets if bond-holders take a haircut. It could lead to a Lehman-style meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>The same applies to Tier I hybrids which banks are happily flogging to retiree investors. Convert their investments into near worthless bank scrip after a financial meltdown and nan and pops will turn up in Melbourne Docklands and Darling Harbour, demanding their money back. I suspect regulators would rather face Ned Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>The only true capital is Common Equity (CET1). Anything else is simply putting lipstick on the pig.<\/p>\n<p>Aussie taxpayers are being duped if they believe that they are covered if there is a financial meltdown and that banks carry enough capital to absorb potential losses.<\/p>\n<p>I would rather see legislation that calls it like it is and provides for government to backstop the banks in the event of a crisis. But at a price that makes their eyes water, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/23\/business\/worldbusiness\/23krona.html\">as the Swedes did in 1992<\/a>. It&#8217;s the best way to keep the banks honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The big four banks are trying to convince the prudential regulator to reconsider its proposal to force them to raise an additional $75 billion of so-called Tier II bonds to meet &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; capital requirements.&#8221; ~ Jonathan Shapiro, Australian Financial Review What is APRA thinking? They are deluding themselves if they think that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/big-four-banks-protest-against-higher-capital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big four banks protest against higher capital&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31],"tags":[214,427,633,3985,1763,3986],"class_list":["post-17736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz-countries-regions","category-the-fed-banks-interest-rates","tag-apra","tag-big-four-banks","tag-cet1","tag-common-equity","tag-hybrids","tag-tier-ii-bonds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big four banks protest against higher capital - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big four banks protest against higher capital - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;The big four banks are trying to convince the prudential regulator to reconsider its proposal to force them to raise an additional $75 billion of so-called Tier II bonds to meet &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; capital requirements.&#8221; ~ Jonathan Shapiro, Australian Financial Review What is APRA thinking? 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