November 11, 2024· 34 min

Can You Ever Actually De-Risk The Banking System?

Orality
Model
66%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(2,204 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,095 words)
M:29%
GuestSteven Kelly(3,178 words)
M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic29%
literally, completely, obviously
Engagement62%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, right
Repetition100%
like (135x), know (60x), credit (60x)
Parallelism77%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And of course, it hedge funds,..., And, of course, it all sort of...
Sound Patterns72%
52 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases6%
you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%
could, maybe, relatively
Passive Voice5%
be levered, be concerned, was unfunded
Abstract Nouns18%
investment, recommendation, disintermediation
Subordination6%
since, because, though
Sentence Length35%
Avg: 13.7 words/sentence
Word Complexity47%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style38%
450 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style88%
literally, completely, obviously

Description

Over the last roughly 15 years, we've seen a migration of certain types of risks outside of regulated deposit-taking banks. Private credit has boomed, shifting lending activity away from the banks. Multi-strategy hedge funds have scooped up a lot of the proprietary trading activity that was banned under the Volcker Rule. On paper, this looks good. It seems like various risks have been removed to less systemic institutions. But does the risk find its way back in? What happens when these outside entities still rely on banks for leverage? On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Steven Kelly, the Associate Director of Research at the Yale Program on Financial Stability. We talk about where risks might lie and how regulators can stay atop of them. Read More: Era of Private Credit Returns Beating Private Equity Is Nearing an End Hedge Fund Basis Trade Faces Scrutiny as Regulators Mull Probe Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox — now delivered every weekday — plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.