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But they were geared to high risk derivatives which could, and did, fall twice as fast as the stock market itself.
It's not as if Italian banks, for example, are remotely equipped to deal with a sudden increase in demand to underwrite risk derivatives.
What's more, regulators do not fully know just how much of a risk derivatives tied to European banks pose for American firms.
Designed to provide efficient ways to manage various kinds of risk, derivatives have themselves become a key source of the systemic risk to which we are exposed today.
It found the bank's chief investment office used both bank capital and insured deposits in high risk derivatives trading, mismarked its books to hide losses, disregarded red flags of growing risks, manipulated models, dodged OCC oversight and lied about it all to investors, regulators and the public.
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Looking toward the end of 2004, I see the following risks as high: interest rate risk, industry specific risks (real estate investment trusts, financial institutions), political risk (election and Fed policy related), financial system risk (derivative and dollar currency related), market disruption risk (terrorism related) and inflation risk.
"If Wall Street gets the upside in big bonuses from its high-risk derivatives deals, then it should also have to pay the downside for any losses," Kelleher wrote.
Romney's investments include stakes in funds invested in high-risk derivatives like the credit default swaps that contributed to the credit crisis, and an investment vehicle that loaned money to the parent firm of the National Enquirer, a racy US tabloid.
Given the risks derivatives still pose, it's something the nation needs to know about Chairman Bachus.
And Mr. Summers has been criticized for failing to foresee the risks derivatives posed and for his reluctance to regulate these exotic financial instruments.
This is just what Wall Street did with the funding bill last December (called the "CRomnibus"), which repealed a key protection from dangerous high-risk derivatives trading (called the "swaps push out").
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