Monthly Archives: December 2012

ECB Ambition Fulfilled for Mersch as Bowles’s Gender Fight Rages, writes Bloomberg.com

“Yves Mersch is about to fulfil an ambition denied to the Luxembourg central bank governor for months in a fight over gender politics as he fills the vacant slot on the European Central Bank’s Executive Board. After the longest battle … Continue reading

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Lorenzo is back! (At least in media)

The A-List: Lorenzo Bini Smaghi: Do not trust politicians to supervise Europe’s banks Bank supervisory authorities that are not sufficiently independent, and are too closely associated with the political authorities, are generally under pressure to delay the identification of insolvent … Continue reading

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