Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar is commonly called the Mar Thoma Church. In official and legal record the church is referred to as Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar or as Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church . The original Church was referred to as the Church of Malabar by the Jesuits and as the Syrian Church of Malabar in Missionary Registers from 1801 onward. Malankara is an ancient name derived from the name 'Maliankara', Maliankara Island is on the Southwestern side of the Indian Peninsula.
Mar Thoma is Aramaic, and means Saint Thomas. Members of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church are commonly called as Mar Thomiyar, Mar Thomites or Mar Thoma Syrians. The original liturgical language used by Saint Thomas Christians was the East Syriac language which is a variant of Aramaic.
Members of the Mar Thoma Church, also known as Marthomites began to move out of Kerala by 1940 and some of them settled down in the UK in the 1950s and the USA in the 1970s. There they continued to follow their ancient customs, traditions and worship.
The Diocese of North America & Europe is a diocese of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church that includes all the Mar Thoma parishes in the North American and European continents. Its headquarters is at Sinai Mar Thoma Centre, Merrick, New York. As of 2015 the Diocesan bishop was Geevarghese Mar Theodosius Episcopa. 1n 2015, 72 parishes and 16 congregations were under this diocese.
The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, also known as the Mar Thoma Church, is a Christian denomination based in the state of Kerala in southwestern India. It is one of the Saint Thomas Christian churches tracing its origins to the missionary activity of Thomas the Apostle.
In August 1948 Juhanon Mar Thoma Metropolitan, head of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, passed through London to attend the Meeting of World Council of Churches in Amsterdam. Though only very few Marthomites lived in London at that time, a holy communion service was conducted, the first Mar Thoma Holy Communion service held in Europe. In 1957 the first Mar Thoma congregation in London was approved. Rev. Abrham Philip, the first vicar was appointed in 1982.
Mar Thoma Church had a humble beginning in Kerala, it has expanded its boundaries to different corners of the continents of the world. In early 1950s, few Marthomites came to the United Kingdom as students for higher studies and others for employment. Once a month they met in the chapel of the Indian YMCA Students' Hostel in London. At that time there were no other Malayali Christian services in UK. This encouraged other Malayali Christians also to participate in our service.
During the 1970s more Marthomites and other Christians came to England from Malaysia, Singapore, Uganda, Zambia, India and many other countries in the African Great Lakes. In 1979 we moved to St. Mary's Parish Church in Newington in Kensington. Although we had services once/ twice a month, most of our members took membership in the local parishes of the Church of England, with whom the Mar Thoma Church had full communion.
Later this group, with a congregational status was recognized as a parish. In 1989 the parish moved to St. Katharine Cree Church in Central London. Several Bishops of the Church visited from to time. In 1996 the Episcopal Synod of the Mar Thoma Church decided to split the UK parish in two, creating St. Johns Mar Thoma Church, UK, in Hounslow. and St James Mar Thoma Church, in Central London.
The Church began as a small prayer group in Queens, New York. In 1972 this was approved as a congregation and later moved to Manhattan. In May 1975 ''Mar Thoma Congregation of Greater New York'' was formed and K.S. Mathew appointed as its vicar. The first congregation in USA that was approved as a parish of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church in 1976 was in New York.
As members increased and more Marthomites began to settle down in other parts of USA and Canada, more congregations were formed and later they became parishes.
In Houston, Texas, the first Mar Thoma church building in USA was consecrated by Thomas Mar Athanasius Suffragan Metropolitan, on July 15, 1984 and was named ''Trinity Mar Thoma church Houston''.
The churches in this part of the world were grouped as a zone of the Mar Thoma Church in 1982. The Church was led by Thomas Mar Athanasius, and Alexander Mar Thoma presided over the zone. However, as per the decision of the Episcopal Synod, the churches in North America and the United Kingdom became constituents of the newly formed "Diocese of North America and United Kingdom". The Philipose Mar Chrysostom then took charge as Diocesan bishop. As the Church continued to expand, the Diocese was renamed to "Diocese of North America and Europe".
The Diocese of North America & Europe is a diocese of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church that includes all the Mar Thoma parishes in the North American and European continents. Rt. Rev. Dr. Isaac Mar Philoxenos took charge as the fourth resident Diocesan Episcopa on 1 April 2016.
In 2015, 72 parishes and 16 congregations were under this diocese.


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A man drove into a crowd of patrons gathered outside a bar in the southern city of Nimes early today, slightly wounding two before hitting a security barrier and being arrested, witnesses and local officials said. The 32-year-old suspect, believed to be a local, sped towards a crowd of about 50 outside the bar at around 1:00 am, witnesses at the scene told AFP. ...
A man drove into a crowd of patrons gathered outside a bar in the southern city of Nimes early today, slightly wounding two before hitting a security barrier and being arrested, witnesses and local officials said.
The 32-year-old suspect, believed to be a local, sped towards a crowd of about 50 outside the bar at around 1:00 am, witnesses at the scene told AFP.

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Social protection is increasingly recognised as a key route to reducing children's poverty and vulnerability. It is assumed to have direct or indirect effects on specific challenges that children face, such as child labour. Child labour is not often included as a main aim of social protection, and therefore is not commonly tracked systematically (de Hoop & Rosati, 2014). There is limited evidence which suggests that social protection programmes have successfully reduced child labour. Most of this evidence comes from Latin America, where social protection programmes are well-established and have been measured over the long-term. This report looks at the general evidence on social protection and child labour, and focuses on programmes in Asia.
Browne, E. (2016). Social protection and child labour in Asia. K4D Helpdesk Report. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies.


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The U.S. Senate is advancing legislation that could create substantial challenges for non-U.S. banks operating in the United States. Senate Bill 1241, known as the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017," has strong bipartisan support and could be passed and signed by the President into law in this year.
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New York City's Vendor Information Exchange System (VENDEX) is an annoyance for organizations dependent on city funding. While it's tempting to treat VENDEX compliance as clerical, it warrants attention from top executives. Perfect VENDEX compliance can be difficult, and complacency can lead to the filing of false data.
Filing a claim for refund of overpaid tax invoices much more than just submitting an amended return to the IRS with an explanatory statement that more than the correct amount of tax was paid. The refund claim, if denied, will form the basis of any suit for a refund commenced in a federal district court or the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Last Summer the Service issued a set of proposed regulations with respect to Section 707(a)(2)(A). This provision involves an arrangement where: (i) involving a partner who provides services (or transfers property) to a partnership; (ii) there is a related direct or indirect allocation and distribution to that partner; and (iii) the performance of the services (or transfer of property) and the allocation and distribution, when viewed together, are in substance compensation for the performance of services (or payment made in exchange for the property) as if the partner was acting other than in his capacity as a party. In such case the distribution will be treated as compensation income to the partner-service provider. The purpose of the disguised services rule is to prevent partners from converting ordinary income into capital gains. As to the partnership, the compensation payments may be required to be capitalized.
In general Section 707(a), along with Section 707(c), provide limited exceptions to the generally accepted rule that a partner cannot receive compensation from a partnership. The proposed regulations provide additional guidance under Section 707(a)(2)(A) and propose conforming changes to Section 707(c) and changes to the issuance of profits interest to service providers under the established safe harbor guidelines in Rev. Proc. 93-27, 1993-2 C.B. 343, clarified in Rev. Proc. 2001-43, 2001-2 C.B. 191. Partnership allocations that are determined with regard to partnership income and that are made to a partner for services rendered by the partner in its capacity as a partner are generally treated as distributive shares of partnership income, taxable under the general rules of sections 702, 703, and 704. As to profits interests, the Treasury and Service announced in the notice of the proposed regulations their intent to modify the exceptions in the cited revenue procedures to include an additional exception for profits interests where a partner waives his right to a payment of a substantially fixed amount for the performance of services, including a guaranteed payment under Section 707(c) or a payment in a non-partner capacity under Section 707(a).
As of this date, the proposed regulations have received comments, including a fair amount of criticism, but have not been issued in final form.
In this report, Mr. August discusses the Tax Court's Altera opinion and considers how an affirmance by the Ninth Circuit might affect the Chevron doctrine and Treasury rulemaking.
Bryan C. Skarlatos Quoted in Tax Notes Article, "News Analysis: Be Nice to Whistleblowers"
"LB&I has its own culture and beliefs about how things should be done. "There's a cultural issue," said Zerbe. Skarlatos said that he got the sense that overworked LB&I revenue agents, who are very expert in their specialties, seem to resent the help and may not recognize the value of the information. Zerbe concurred that it is difficult to sell LB&I on a case involving an insider at a Fortune 500 company. "C'mon, guys, this guy got fired for what he disclosed!" said Skarlatos, who praised the quality of the evidence offered by insiders.
LB&I has an audit plan and may be reluctant to take up a case when its audit of the reported company has been completed. "It's tough changing the audit plan," Skarlatos noted. There is no placeholder in the audit plan for issues raised by whistleblowers. Zerbe wanted the Whistleblower Office to have the power to go to the commissioner to change the audit plan, that is, essentially reopen the audit of the reported company."
Bryan C. Skarlatos Quoted in Tax Analysts Article, "U.S. Taxpayer Revelations From Panama Leak Expected to Be Modest"
The data are unlikely to reveal large-scale noncompliance by U.S. taxpayers that hasn't already been disclosed or cleaned up, said Bryan C. Skarlatos of Kostelanetz & Fink LLP. "The main contribution of this data is that it's lifted back the curtain, enabling us to see evidence of hidden accounts and bearer share company structures that the public hears about, but never really sees," Skarlatos said. The primary impact in the U.S. will be to raise awareness about how bank secrecy works around the world, through the use of those bearer share corporations, he added.
Jerald David August Quoted In Bloomberg Article, "Amid Inversion Crackdown, IRS Blesses Delphi's British Domicile"
On August 13th Jerald David August, Partner at Kostelanetz & Fink LLP, was quoted in a Bloomerberg News article that is now published online.
The Delphi case may have presented unique obstacles, said Jerald David August, a partner at Kostelanetz & Fink LLP, a New York tax firm. The IRS may have worried that a loss in court would force it to revise a round of anti-inversion regulations from 2009, he said -- or that the case would bring unwelcome attention to the administration's own role in Delphi's expatriation. The company shifted its tax address as part of the fallout from General Motors Co.'s 2009 bankruptcy and bailout, which were overseen by Obama's administration.
For their part, Delphi officials had always insisted their case was strong and pledged in securities filings to "vigorously" defend their position. On Wednesday, the company declined to comment beyond saying it's "satisfied" with the IRS's decision. The IRS also declined to comment.
Every once in awhile, we meet people who truly inspire us to be better people and better lawyers. Marjorie Peerce is one of those people. As a partner in the New York office of Ballard Spahr she focuses her practice on white collar, regulatory and commercial defense. Yet since 2014, in addition to her busy practice, she has made time to work tirelessly to recruit and train volunteer lawyers to provide free legal assistance to federal inmates who may be eligible to have their sentences commuted or reduced by the President of the United States. Over 3,000 attorneys across the country have volunteered their time to work on this project, including 100 lawyers from Ballard Spahr. Every application submitted by Ballard Spahr is reviewed by Marjorie. She recently saw the first fruits of her labor and that of her colleagues when, on March 29, 2016, Obama granted clemency to 61 federal inmates, 25 of whom came through Clemency Project 2014 and two of whom were represented by Ballard Spahr attorneys.


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Zac Efron's EDM movie 'We Are Your Friends' suffers one of the worst opening weekends in history
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The film appears to be a flop in the US
We Are Your Friends, a new film set in the electronic dance music (EDM) scene starring Zac Efron, has suffered a disappointing opening weekend in the US.
In the film, Efron plays an aspiring DJ trying to make it in the EDM world, attracting the attention of an older, more established DJ (Interstellar's Wes Bentley), who becomes his mentor. However, when Efron falls for his mentor's girlfriend (Emily Ratajkowski, who starred in Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' video), he is forced to make some difficult decisions.
Named after Justice vs. Simian's 2006 dance hit 'We Are Your Friends', the film features cameo appearances from real-life EDM DJs Alesso, Dillon Francis, Nicky Romero and Them Jeans.
According to Billboard, the film has brought in $1.8 million (£1.1 million) since its release on Friday (August 28), the worst opening weekend for a major film playing in more than 2,000 movie theatres. It had a budget of $6 million (£3.9 million).
Warner Bros' Jeff Goldstein said of the news, "This was a passion project for Zac Efron, and we believe in him. Yes, the result was disappointing, but this was a small film."
We Are Your Friends was co-written and directed by Max Joseph, the "cameraman" from Catfish: The TV Show, in his feature film directorial debut.
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Diddy Wants to Buy the Carolina Panthers, Fans React
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This isn't the first time that Diddy has alluded to his desire to own a football team, be it his own league or in the NFL, but yesterday, the rap mogul said he wants to buy the Carolina Panthers on Twitter.
Following sexual harassment allegations and accusations that he used racial slurs, Panthers controlling owner, Jerry Richardson, said he plans to sell the team at the end of the season. That's when Diddy spoke up, saying he'd buy the Panthers and contesting the fact that there are no black controlling owners in the league and it's time to "make history."
Steph Curry got in on the sentiment, saying he wants to get in on the bid for the Panthers, which made fans doubly excited. Of course, the idea of Diddy as a team owner drew a lot of responses from fans, who like the concept but also had plenty of jokes.
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Master sommelier Brian McClintic is all about Santa Barbara wine.
Moving Beyond "Sideways": The 5 Santa Barbara Wines You Need to Try Now
Sommeliers Brian McClintic and Eric Railsback share their favorite recommendations from Cali's underrated region
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Let's face it: Even though Angelenos think Santa Barbara County is wine-tastic, it's the red-headed stepchild to Napa/Sonoma. But Master Sommelier Brian McClintic and Food & Wine's 2014 Sommelier of the Year Eric Railsback, who together co-own Les Marchands Wine Bar & Merchant and Vallin Wine, make compelling cases for why the beachside county has more going for it than proximity to L.A. I chatted with the two at the 2nd Annual Santa Barbara County Wine Futures Tasting.
"Santa Barbara County will always be underrated, but it's a good thing because to me it allows us the opportunity to not grow faster than press," said McClintic. "Press when it's too soon can be a bad thing because then people will plant things in the wrong places and try to capitalize on it. The emphasis now is on quality."
"I think the potential here is huge just in terms of the temperature, the climate, the soils as well," said Railsback. "It's the only place in California that there's a transverse valley that goes east and west so the airflow is really different from Sonoma and Napa. In the daytime you get really great sun but at night the temperatures cool down a lot. You get your phenolic ripeness, good alcohol, but then at night the vines can take a break so they're not perspiring off acidity, which keeps good freshness and balance."
Sure, Napa's tourism is based on wine, but "we have some high-level wine here that's built to age," adds McClintic. The annual Santa Barbara showcase gives oenophiles a sneak peek and taste of the area's unreleased wines from the upcoming vintage. With a mix of O.G. vinters like Au Bon Climat and young upstarts like Rajat Parr's Sandhi, everyone is sure to discover some new favorite. But here are the somms' personal Santa Barbara picks.
Tyler Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
"Most people associate Santa Barbara County with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, and for good reason. It's probably one of the coolest regions on earth. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are cool-climate grapes and like to thrive in that area. And Tyler is at the forefront and he's making wines to age that are really incredible," said McClintic. While Railsback singles out Tyler's old vine Sanford & Benedict: "It's the original vineyard from '71 and to see that every year in and out, there's definitely a different texture to those wines that's really superior from all of his other pinots."
Tatomer Kick On Riesling
"For whites I really love Tatomer Winery, Graham Tatomer does a really killer Riesling, Gruners, Austrian-style wines," said Railsback, an Austrian whites fanatic. "For me his Kick On Riesling is his main, high-end riesling. He holds it for two years before he releases it, which is super rare for a white. Those wines are pretty great, they show the potential of a varietal." McClintic admires Tatomer's dedication to the wine. "He actually went to Austria and studied under two of the best domaines there, Franz Hirtzberger and Emmerich Knoll," he continues. "These are the best producers in the world for this grape. It's a very, very serious project and it's kind of an homage to the fact that we can grow a ton of different grapes here."
Ojai Vineyard
"The wines from Ojai are pretty fun because he's a producer that started old school," said Railsback. "Then he started making things a little bit more modern, richer, rounder, more alcohol. But four, five, or six years ago he went back to the older style of winemaking, which is super tough, because people criticize you a lot when you go back and forth. It was great to see him go back to what he really believed and go away from the Parker-point style wine making."
Qupe Bien Nacido Hillside Syrah
"Qupe, another old school guy who shares the winery with Jim Clendenen. But their Bien Nacido Hillside is really epic," said Railsback. "The Bien Nacido Hillside is year in and year out super Northern Rhone style, very aromatic and pretty exciting. They just sold six months ago to the Terroir Capital Group, so it'll be fun to see what they can do with a little more finances on their side."
Vallin Syrah
This is Railsback and McClintic's celebration of Syrah. The duo teamed up with Tyler's Justin Willett and Master Sommelier Dustin Wilson of Eleven Madiscon Park because "We feel that Syrah of all grapes is kind of an unsung hero," explained McClintic. "Syrah is one of those wines where it really thrives in a cool climate but people like to plant it in a warm climate like cabernet and then it becomes a fruit bomb-y cocktail that really is nondescript, it doesn't have an identity. And when syrah is made in a cool climate and you back off of the oak and extraction it has more character than probably any grape around. It's spicy, it's meaty, it's olive-y and it's incredibly versatile with food."
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Scouting Report: Phoenix is a physical back but has speed and is very agile. He hits the whole hard and has great vision. It takes multiple defenders to take him down.
Instagram : @phoenixdonghia - Twitter : @PhoenixDonghia What age were you when you first started playing? 8 years old
Why did you start playing? Who influenced you? I liked watching football on TV with my Dad, and couldn't wait to start playing. My Dad influenced me to play football because he played. What did you enjoy about the combine, practice and the game during the Dream All-American Weekend? I enjoyed meeting my new teammates and learning from the coaches. It was a great experience playing at AT&T Stadium! What would your teachers say about you? They would say I'm thoughtful when speaking, and lead by my actions. What do you love about the game? Best game in the world, and it sure is fun! Who do you look up to? Christian McCaffrey Why should a college coach recruit you in the future? I'm talented, a hard worker, and a great teammate.
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The Camino del Agua walking route in Águilas
The PR-MU 113 route is an 18-kilometre walk from the mountains behind Águilas to the town centre
This route is named after the old water supply channel from Tébar to Águilas, a canal which was built on the orders of King Carlos III in the 18th century with the aim of providing infrastructures for the growing town of Águilas.
It is a linear route of which all but 3 kilometres follows tarmacked road surfaces, and on either side are intensive farming concerns and greenhouses. While walking it is possible to see the structures of the old canal, although most are in a poor state of repair: some of the aqueducts and water deposits or "pilicas" along the way are the Acueducto de la Rambla de Arrieros, the Acueducto y Pilica de las Escalericas (which still carries water), the Acueducto y Pilica de Casa Aragón (which also still holds water) – all three of these are on the only diversion from the main route – and the Pilica del Portazgo.
The source of the water is a spring at the foot of Monte Nacimiento, and the water was channelled from this location. In order to cope with the uneven terrain a series of aqueducts of varying lengths and heights were built, and at various points along the canal drinking fountains and "pilicas" were created to supply water to the houses and cottages along the route, and to travellers on the road to Lorca. When it reached the town of Águilas, the water entered the Acueducto de Los Arcos, where there was a fountain, and skirted the hill known as Cabezo de los Alacranes before finally reaching the Plaza de los Caños.
This was the end of the canal, and in the square was the Fuente del Oro, the most iconic fountain and water source in the town, which was built in 1787 following the design of Juan de Villanueva, architect to the court of Carlos III. Originally the fountain featured four bronze taps with ornamental lion's head designs – two more were added later – from where the water poured forth to supply the town. Any excess water was diverted via another canal to the wash-house which used to stand on what is now the crossroads of Avenida Juan Carlos I and Calle Doctor Luis Prieto, and the two canals still give their names to the streets of Cañería Alta (along which the supply to the fountain used to run) and Cañería Baja (the route to the wash-house).
Of course the route can be undertaken in the opposite direction, but it makes sense to follow the downhill journey of the water supply to Águilas in past centuries!
PR-MU 113
Length: 18 km (21 km including offshoots)
Ascent and descent: 18 metres and 491 metres (21 and 531 including offshoots)
Estimated duration: 5 hours (5 hours 40 including offshoots)
Start: Beneath the castle of Tébar
Finish: Plaza José García Cela
Click for the Wikiloc route map, or for more information about the municipality of Águilas visit Águilas Today.
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Finance & economics | Bank regulation
Too nice in Basel
Regulators are shaping their rules to fit a discredited big-bank model
Oct 3rd 2002 |
EVEN as big investment banks recoil from slavering watchdogs in America, they are getting much kinder treatment—perhaps too kind—from financial regulators in Basel and Brussels. This week the Basel committee of rich-country bank supervisors gave the fullest picture yet of how its new risk-based regime for banks will look. Although the regime, called Basel 2, will not come into force until January 2007 at the earliest, it seems already to be having a big impact on bank behaviour.
Since banks know that certain credit and operational risks will need a bigger buffer of regulatory capital, they are already cutting loans to riskier borrowers. And they are doing more trading through clearing-houses and exchanges—which reduces both operational and counterparty risk. Yet it still looks like a case of big banks pulling the regulators by the nose.
Basel 2 favours large banks that have good internal communications and are skilled at intermediating risks and unloading them on to others. Funnily enough, these are the same skills and the same banks that are getting such stick from American regulators and are under some threat of being broken up.
Bank regulators have certainly gone to great lengths to accommodate the methods that big banks have developed to judge their risks and conduct business. Yet, as Avinash Persaud at State Street, an American bank, points out, banks have a poor record of judging risk through business cycles—running blindly into property and technology booms and busts, for instance. Basel 2 risks making banks even more likely to accentuate business cycles, he says, since their allocations of regulatory capital will be even more finely tuned to their daily exposure to risk. The Basel committee's latest paper tries to respond to this worry by making the capital ratios less sensitive to business cycles, and by making room for a capital buffer against so-called pro-cyclicality, all at the discretion of supervisors.
Huw van Steenis at Morgan Stanley believes that the market downturn is already rendering some bits of financial regulation less relevant. For example, a debate has been raging in Europe over whether financial institutions may "internalise", that is, match in-house trades by their clients of exchange-listed securities. The perceived danger is that the pricing of these trades is opaque and that the market is deprived of liquidity.
The European Commission's latest draft of its Investment Services Directive, circulated last month, requires institutions in the European Union to obtain a client's permission for an internalised trade and to report the price of the deal to the exchange. That could reduce the incentive to internalise, since transparency tends to eat into margins, says Mr van Steenis. Moreover, with lower trading volumes, institutions are in less hurry to invest in technology to internalise trades. Either way, this works in favour of the bigger banks with economies of scale and better systems.
Another study published this week by a consortium of finance-industry associations—dominated by the same big banks—comes out, unsurprisingly, in favour of internalisation*. Transparency can be taken too far, it argues, to the point where dealers will not deal. Moreover, internalisation promotes competition among the banks, electronic trading platforms and quasi-monopolistic exchanges.
However, a landscape in which regulators work hand-in-hand with the most powerful financial institutions to reinforce conditions under which only they thrive may not be the healthiest outcome. Bank regulators congratulate themselves that in this downturn the banks have (so far) proved well-capitalised. Banks have taken hits on their loan portfolios, but no major bank, it appears, has yet got into difficulty. Banks have learned to shunt their credit exposures elsewhere in the system—mostly, it is thought, to insurance companies and mutual funds.
There may be perverse consequences if it is not banks but insurers and mutual-fund investors who bear the brunt of financial pain. Banks were once expected to provide a buffer against economic cycles. The Basel committee would like that role to survive, yet the new regime is more likely to undermine it. What is more, regulators, such as Britain's Financial Services Authority, threaten to subject insurance companies to a similar regime. In other words, insurers, whose strength has lain in their ability to spread losses over long periods, may end up with their insurance assets and liabilities constantly marked to market.
Where, then, should financial risks properly reside, and what should regulators do to get them there? Probably not in giant investment-banking conglomerates, whose fortunes are subject to severe swings caused not only by market movements, and by operational risks, but also by assaults on their reputation. Reputation risk, incidentally, is more-or-less ignored by Basel 2.
The repute and trustworthiness of financial institutions is perhaps the biggest uncertainty in today's financial markets. A complex financial regime such as Basel 2, and financial regulations such as the EU's Investment Services Directive, appear to be designed not so much to serve users of financial services as to prolong the survival of institutions and ways of doing business that are no longer trusted by the public. The regulators in Basel and Brussels might bear that in mind.
*"Capital Markets that Benefit Investors", by Ruben Lee. Oxford Finance Group, September 2002
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Too nice in Basel"
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Enable people with an interest in IT heritage to invest and own part of the Museum.
Provide separation between the collections / assets and the Museum operations.
Raise working capital for the Operations Company via the sale of shares to investors.
Enable collectors who loan their pieces / collections to the Museum to receive a commercial return.
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