Recommendations by top banking regulators that lenders strengthen underwriting standards for leveraged loans may decrease funding to the neediest borrowers, according to Loan Syndications and Trading Association.

The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency sent letters to some of the biggest U.S. banks asking them to avoid arranging debt that may be classified by regulators as having some deficiency that may result in a loss, according to nine people with knowledge of the communication.
Fed Loan Warning
The head of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, warns of the consequences of its own policy: increase the risks in the banking sector.

Greece made largest fiscal adjustment, says EU paper published ‘by mistake’.

Brussels – Greece performed the largest fiscal adjustment in the eurozone between 2011 and 2013, according to a research paper by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, which was apparently published by mistake on Monday. Greece made largest fiscal adjustment, says EU paper published by mistake

A simple comparison between the US approach and the EU approach to economic recovery is ample proof that Keynes was correct in his assessment of macroeconomic processes relative to managing economies of scale in a globally connected market. Austerity moves inflicted unnecessary harm on economies and peoples. When consumers loose faith in markets and markets contract soverigns are the only source of liquidity left. Governments must prime the pumps of the economy, albeit in a deliberate thought out way, in order to jump-start the economic engines.

Fiscal-Consolidation-Paper

means record numbers of women failing to save enough for a pension

The increasing cost of raising children and looking after elderly parents means record numbers of women are failing to save enough for their own retirement, a new report claims.
Rising cost of raising a family 

Within the next decade, women are expected to control half of the private wealth in the U.S., but conferences for money managers are still dominated by men.

32% of the Wall Street Journal readers  are women. For many years, I have faithfully read the financial news and, not so faithfully, looked at the ads. But sometimes an oversized or provocative ad will catch my eye … as in the case of one recent full-page splash for a private equity conference sponsored by Dow Jones. The ad prominently displayed the photos of 10 featured speakers. All men. Huh, I thought. What happened there?

Where are all the women at finance conferences?

Over half of Asia’s population is women who, according to UN estimates, could be helping the region grow , but instead face barriers that keep them from reaching their full economic potential.

FOR entrepreneurs like Rusmala Dewi from Palembang on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the need to earn money for the family means they don’t even finish secondary education. Dewi left school at 14 because her parents could no longer afford the fees. With about $20 in capital, she started making hand-woven Indonesian brocades called songket, completing about one a month.
Asia losing $89bn a year by failing to recognise women’s economic worth

Big Money: On women in economics

It’s odd to hear from a female economist.

In Australia, Melbourne University economist Judith Sloan stands alone among female economists with a large public profile.

It’s not that female economists don’t exist. But they are few. And as most economists work in obscurity on topics worthy of little media attention, the odds of them breaking through are slim.

The funnel starts small too. When I studied economics at university, my first-year classes, held jointly with the accounting, commerce and finance majors, were full of women. But by second year, when classes focused just on economics, I became a small minority. By final year, it was not uncommon for me to be the only woman in my tutorials.
Big Money: On women in economics