Mayra Rodriguez Valladares
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Coronavirus Crisis Shows That Banks Need to Conduct More Strenuous Stress Tests Now
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
When President Trump’s own U.S. treasury secretary states that unemployment could reach 20%, unless legislators finally start implementing some type …
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Significant Supervisory and Data Gaps Exist in Leveraged Loan and CLO Markets
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
Significant vulnerabilities in the global leveraged loan and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) markets have grown since the 2008 financial crisis, …
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Keep Your Eye on Record Large Global Derivatives Markets
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
If I had a dollar for every time my clients and students told me in 2008 – 2012, that derivatives …
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Almost Half of America’s Banks Have Less Than Satisfactory Federal Reserve Supervisory Ratings
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
On Tuesday, right as most Americans were running around doing last minute preparations for Thanksgiving, the Board of Governors of …
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The Government Accountability Office Is Right to Assess Regulators’ Monitoring of Leveraged Lending
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the U.S. legislative agency that monitors and audits government spending and operations, is conducting an …
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Leveraged Loans and Collateralized Loan Obligations Are Riskier Than Many Want to Admit
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
In the last twelve months, I have written almost thirty articles about leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), because …
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Foreign Exchange Transactions and Over-the-Counter Interest Rate Derivatives Hit Record Highs
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
Anyone who is still claiming that Basel III rules, Dodd-Frank, or international agreed upon derivatives reforms would hurt trading volumes …
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Here’s Why Critics Think Changes to the ‘Volcker Rule’ Could Increase Risk and Leave Taxpayers Bailing Out Banks (Again)
By Erik Sherman
August 26, 2019, Fortune
After big banks received a bailout during the Great Recession (with taxpayer money) one guardrail that followed was increased regulation. Part of the …
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Weakening Dodd-Frank’s Volcker Rule Puts Depositors and Tax Payers at Risk
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
In an unfortunate decision, three of the four voting members of the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) …
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Rising Unemployment and Imminent Corporate Defaults Will Hurt Banks’ Profitability and Capital
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
Today’s unemployment insurance (UI) data and the junk bond market sell-off are very negative macroeconomic and market signals that will …
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