ECB warns on UK's 'back-to-back' facility, bank stability, and coding lessons at JPMorgan

ECB warns on UK's 'back-to-back' facility, bank stability, and coding lessons at JPMorgan

Author: Financial Times October 9, 2018 Duration: 18:48

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the European Central Bank's warning about the continued use of 'back-to-back' booking models for trades and loans after Brexit, an academic's view of the risks to bank stability ten years after the financial crisis, and JPMorgan's initiative to boost the coding skills of its staff.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, finance editor, Martin Arnold, banking editor, Laura Noonan, US banking editor; Special guest: Douglas Diamond, professor of finance at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Producer: Fiona Symon


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