The Intuition Finance Digest
Episodes
Emerging risks in finance: “Tilted to the downside”?
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the year-end approaches, the focus of market strategists and economists is on the risks to the global economy and markets in 2024. Key potential so...
ETFs – popular as ever, with increased specialization
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are one of the major financial innovations of recent decades, their growing popularity reflected in an ever-rising share ...
Specter of stagflation haunts markets
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The response of central authorities to the pandemic was decisive – reflationary policies that injected massive amounts of money into both the financ...
Private funds feeling the pressure
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For at least a decade, private assets – equities, credit, real estate, and other alternative assets that are not publicly traded – had been experi...
Meaningful Client Conversations on Corporate Finance for Private Bankers & Corporate Relationship Directors
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most Private Bankers (with Entrepreneur clients) and Corporate RDs (CEO & CFO) feel unable to engage their clients on Corporate Finance. Thus, fai...
Basel III Endgame: US banks to be brought into line with Basel III
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The announcement of new proposals – referred to as the “Basel III Endgame” – to bring the regulatory capital framework in the United States in...
Fossil fuels and net zero – can they ever be compatible?
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The road to net zero is a complicated journey with multiple diversions, forks, and confusing terrain, not least exemplified by the contention that it ...
Credit cycle on the turn
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Higher for longer” is a mantra with which observers of the global interest rate regime have been familiar with for some time. As central banks wo...
ESG backlash gathers pace
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The recent statement by the CEO of one of the world’s largest asset managers that henceforth he would stop using the ‘weaponized’ term ‘ESG’...
CBDCs – Moving forward (slowly)
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have been characterized as a solution in search of a problem, but central banks seem resolute in their ultimat...
Open banking – A global perspective
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is more than a decade since open banking arrived on the scene to a reluctant banking sector. That is just one reason why it has yet to reach its po...
Green bonds explained and the different types of green asset
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are green bonds and what are the different types of green asset?
Rates turmoil strikes financial system
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The spike in interest rates over the past couple of years has transformed the banking landscape and placed immense pressure on individual institutions...
Climate risk – Regulatory response gathers pace
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is widely accepted that climate change and how we respond to it has significant consequences, both for the global economy and for society in genera...
Biodiversity explained: What is its impact on the finance industry?
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is biodiversity? What is the Convention on biological diversity (CBD)? How does biodiversity impact finance? And how can businesses manage biodiv...
What is inflation? Causes, hyperinflation, and deflation explained
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation is one of today's most talked-about topics, but what is it?
The state of hedge funds – Is global macro back?
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a fallow period following the global financial crisis, global macro funds last year delivered their best performance since 2008, with aggre ssiv...
Inflation targeting – What it is, and has the 2% goal run its course?
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation targeting has been used as a monetary policy tool by central banks since the late 1980s, but recent events have raised the question as...
“Trustworthy” AI – Can regulation enhance trust in the AI that businesses and people are using?
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As part of its “Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence,” the EU has proposed a regulation that sets out harmonized rules on artificial intell...
Ratings divergence complicates anti-greenwashing measures
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The risks associated with greenwashing – false/misleading marketing regarding the sustainability attributes of a product or service – are on the r...
Sustainable Commodities – Can they play a role in the transition to a low-carbon economy?
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many commodities have become key inputs to the global economy, but their production is often associated with processes that have serious environmental...
The Ethereum “Merge” – What are the implications for the future of the crypto industry?
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the failed crypto exchange FTX has heightened uncertainty over this asset class, another potentially seismic event for the industry took place r...
Understanding the dynamics of recession
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world, many economies are either in recession or heading toward one as a result of the inflation crisis and the associated policy response ...
How to identify and manage problem loans
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With many economies bracing for downturn and a higher interest rate environment, a sharp spike in default rates is a likely prospect. What steps shoul...