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So what would you like to know about bankers, I like to ask people, and most answer: how can they live with themselves? How can bankers take home those salaries and bonuses when the rest of us are facing austerity and very painful cuts in public services?A little while ago I put this to a financial recruiter. I'll call him Philippe. Philippe is working with the well-paid bankers everyone else seems so angry with. They come to him when they want to move to a new job, or he poaches them on behalf of banks or financial firms. Being at the high end of the industry he has extensive conversations with clients about their motives, fears and ambitions.So how can they live with themselves?"They feel unjustly singled out", said Philippe. "What I hear is: look, nobody would run a bank with the intention of wrecking it, would they? Banks lent to people who couldn't repay. But nobody forced these people to take out loans that they must have known were far beyond their means. Banks may have been enablers, but in the end it was reckless individuals who did this. But what politician is going to blame this crisis on his voters, some of who must have been among the reckless borrowers? Much easier to heap it all on the bankers."This is a common refrain in the City, where people like to compare themselves to "over-enthusiastic waiters", in the recent words of one CEO."Then again", Philippe continued, "many of my clients simply don't seem to care a whole lot about what the general public think. These are extremely well-educated and multilingual professionals. Many are in mixed marriages with kids who have lived on two or three continents. These people don't belong anywhere and don't feel beholden to any national project. They want to pay as little in tax as they can, and they want to be safe. That's it. Rule of law is very important for them.'This chimes with many interviews I've done. As one partner in a major UK financial law firm put it: '"When I go to these banks I am struck by how international they are. On each division there's the 'token Brit' but often that's it. The rest can be from anywhere."That's London and those are Philippe's clients. They sound almost like the crew of "spaceship finance", don't they? The ship happens to have landed in London for now, but can take off any time. Philippe said: "A highly educated professional in the City of London has much more in common with a peer in Hong Kong, New York City or Rio de Janeiro, than with a monolingual, mono-cultural teacher or nurse somewhere up in Birmingham or Manchester. Solidarity for the new global elite is not geography-based or tied up with a state."Knowing this was for the Guardian, he added with a mischievous smile: "This is where the left seems lost. It insists on solidarity across the nation, with higher tax rates for rich people to help their less fortunate countrymen. But this solidarity is predicated on a sense of national belonging, to which the left is allergic; national identity comes with chauvinism and nationalism, and creepy rightwing supremacists. It's quite ironic how postmodernists and many contemporary social thinkers on the left will tell you that all sense of belonging is a construct, tradition is invented and nations are simply fantasies or imagined communities. Well, the global financial elite agrees."
So, how can bankers live with themselves?CitarSo what would you like to know about bankers, I like to ask people, and most answer: how can they live with themselves? How can bankers take home those salaries and bonuses when the rest of us are facing austerity and very painful cuts in public services?A little while ago I put this to a financial recruiter. I'll call him Philippe. Philippe is working with the well-paid bankers everyone else seems so angry with. They come to him when they want to move to a new job, or he poaches them on behalf of banks or financial firms. Being at the high end of the industry he has extensive conversations with clients about their motives, fears and ambitions.So how can they live with themselves?"They feel unjustly singled out", said Philippe. "What I hear is: look, nobody would run a bank with the intention of wrecking it, would they? Banks lent to people who couldn't repay. But nobody forced these people to take out loans that they must have known were far beyond their means. Banks may have been enablers, but in the end it was reckless individuals who did this. But what politician is going to blame this crisis on his voters, some of who must have been among the reckless borrowers? Much easier to heap it all on the bankers."Exactamente esos individuos imprudentes yo señalaría que son precisamente esos banqueros... ¿descuido?This is a common refrain in the City, where people like to compare themselves to "over-enthusiastic waiters", in the recent words of one CEO."Then again", Philippe continued, "many of my clients simply don't seem to care a whole lot about what the general public think. These are extremely well-educated and multilingual professionals. Many are in mixed marriages with kids who have lived on two or three continents. These people don't belong anywhere and don't feel beholden to any national project. They want to pay as little in tax as they can, and they want to be safe. That's it. Rule of law is very important for them.'Sí que tienen un "proyecto nacional" al que están atados: el suyo se llama dinero. This chimes with many interviews I've done. As one partner in a major UK financial law firm put it: '"When I go to these banks I am struck by how international they are. On each division there's the 'token Brit' but often that's it. The rest can be from anywhere."That's London and those are Philippe's clients. They sound almost like the crew of "spaceship finance", don't they? The ship happens to have landed in London for now, but can take off any time. Philippe said: "A highly educated professional in the City of London has much more in common with a peer in Hong Kong, New York City or Rio de Janeiro, than with a monolingual, mono-cultural teacher or nurse somewhere up in Birmingham or Manchester. Solidarity for the new global elite is not geography-based or tied up with a state."Knowing this was for the Guardian, he added with a mischievous smile: "This is where the left seems lost. It insists on solidarity across the nation, with higher tax rates for rich people to help their less fortunate countrymen. But this solidarity is predicated on a sense of national belonging, to which the left is allergic; national identity comes with chauvinism and nationalism, and creepy rightwing supremacists. It's quite ironic how postmodernists and many contemporary social thinkers on the left will tell you that all sense of belonging is a construct, tradition is invented and nations are simply fantasies or imagined communities. Well, the global financial elite agrees."Resúmen: hay un sector de la banca, la que opera en los mercados internacionales, que funcionan al margen del resto del mundo como una especie de élite cuyas únicas obsesines son sentirse seguros y no pagar impuestos. El resto del mundo les importa un culo.Financieramente hablando, en manos de estos pavos estamos.
So what would you like to know about bankers, I like to ask people, and most answer: how can they live with themselves? How can bankers take home those salaries and bonuses when the rest of us are facing austerity and very painful cuts in public services?A little while ago I put this to a financial recruiter. I'll call him Philippe. Philippe is working with the well-paid bankers everyone else seems so angry with. They come to him when they want to move to a new job, or he poaches them on behalf of banks or financial firms. Being at the high end of the industry he has extensive conversations with clients about their motives, fears and ambitions.So how can they live with themselves?"They feel unjustly singled out", said Philippe. "What I hear is: look, nobody would run a bank with the intention of wrecking it, would they? Banks lent to people who couldn't repay. But nobody forced these people to take out loans that they must have known were far beyond their means. Banks may have been enablers, but in the end it was reckless individuals who did this. But what politician is going to blame this crisis on his voters, some of who must have been among the reckless borrowers? Much easier to heap it all on the bankers."Exactamente esos individuos imprudentes yo señalaría que son precisamente esos banqueros... ¿descuido?This is a common refrain in the City, where people like to compare themselves to "over-enthusiastic waiters", in the recent words of one CEO."Then again", Philippe continued, "many of my clients simply don't seem to care a whole lot about what the general public think. These are extremely well-educated and multilingual professionals. Many are in mixed marriages with kids who have lived on two or three continents. These people don't belong anywhere and don't feel beholden to any national project. They want to pay as little in tax as they can, and they want to be safe. That's it. Rule of law is very important for them.'Sí que tienen un "proyecto nacional" al que están atados: el suyo se llama dinero. This chimes with many interviews I've done. As one partner in a major UK financial law firm put it: '"When I go to these banks I am struck by how international they are. On each division there's the 'token Brit' but often that's it. The rest can be from anywhere."That's London and those are Philippe's clients. They sound almost like the crew of "spaceship finance", don't they? The ship happens to have landed in London for now, but can take off any time. Philippe said: "A highly educated professional in the City of London has much more in common with a peer in Hong Kong, New York City or Rio de Janeiro, than with a monolingual, mono-cultural teacher or nurse somewhere up in Birmingham or Manchester. Solidarity for the new global elite is not geography-based or tied up with a state."Knowing this was for the Guardian, he added with a mischievous smile: "This is where the left seems lost. It insists on solidarity across the nation, with higher tax rates for rich people to help their less fortunate countrymen. But this solidarity is predicated on a sense of national belonging, to which the left is allergic; national identity comes with chauvinism and nationalism, and creepy rightwing supremacists. It's quite ironic how postmodernists and many contemporary social thinkers on the left will tell you that all sense of belonging is a construct, tradition is invented and nations are simply fantasies or imagined communities. Well, the global financial elite agrees."
So, how can bankers live with themselves?CitarSo what would you like to know about bankers, I like to ask people, and most answer: how can they live with themselves? How can bankers take home those salaries and bonuses when the rest of us are facing austerity and very painful cuts in public services?A little while ago I put this to a financial recruiter. I'll call him Philippe. Philippe is working with the well-paid bankers everyone else seems so angry with. They come to him when they want to move to a new job, or he poaches them on behalf of banks or financial firms. Being at the high end of the industry he has extensive conversations with clients about their motives, fears and ambitions.So how can they live with themselves?"They feel unjustly singled out", said Philippe. "What I hear is: look, nobody would run a bank with the intention of wrecking it, would they? Banks lent to people who couldn't repay. But nobody forced these people to take out loans that they must have known were far beyond their means. Banks may have been enablers, but in the end it was reckless individuals who did this. But what politician is going to blame this crisis on his voters, some of who must have been among the reckless borrowers? Much easier to heap it all on the bankers."This is a common refrain in the City, where people like to compare themselves to "over-enthusiastic waiters", in the recent words of one CEO."Then again", Philippe continued, "many of my clients simply don't seem to care a whole lot about what the general public think. These are extremely well-educated and multilingual professionals. Many are in mixed marriages with kids who have lived on two or three continents. These people don't belong anywhere and don't feel beholden to any national project. They want to pay as little in tax as they can, and they want to be safe. That's it. Rule of law is very important for them.'This chimes with many interviews I've done. As one partner in a major UK financial law firm put it: '"When I go to these banks I am struck by how international they are. On each division there's the 'token Brit' but often that's it. The rest can be from anywhere."That's London and those are Philippe's clients. They sound almost like the crew of "spaceship finance", don't they? The ship happens to have landed in London for now, but can take off any time. Philippe said: "A highly educated professional in the City of London has much more in common with a peer in Hong Kong, New York City or Rio de Janeiro, than with a monolingual, mono-cultural teacher or nurse somewhere up in Birmingham or Manchester. Solidarity for the new global elite is not geography-based or tied up with a state."Knowing this was for the Guardian, he added with a mischievous smile: "This is where the left seems lost. It insists on solidarity across the nation, with higher tax rates for rich people to help their less fortunate countrymen. But this solidarity is predicated on a sense of national belonging, to which the left is allergic; national identity comes with chauvinism and nationalism, and creepy rightwing supremacists. It's quite ironic how postmodernists and many contemporary social thinkers on the left will tell you that all sense of belonging is a construct, tradition is invented and nations are simply fantasies or imagined communities. Well, the global financial elite agrees."Resúmen: hay un sector de la banca, la que opera en los mercados internacionales, que funcionan al margen del resto del mundo como una especie de élite cuyas únicas obsesines son sentirse seguros y no pagar impuestos. El resto del mundo les importa un culo.Financieramente hablando, en manos de estos pavos estamos.
Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for CouponsBy Max Abelson - Feb 29, 2012Andrew Schiff was sitting in a traffic jam in California this month after giving a speech at an investment conference about gold. He turned off the satellite radio, got out of the car and screamed a profanity.“I’m not Zen at all, and when I’m freaking out about the situation, where I’m stuck like a rat in a trap on a highway with no way to get out, it’s very hard,” Schiff, director of marketing for broker-dealer Euro Pacific Capital Inc., said in an interview.Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex.“I feel stuck,” Schiff said. “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”The smaller bonus checks that hit accounts across the financial-services industry this month are making it difficult to maintain the lifestyles that Wall Street workers expect, according to interviews with bankers and their accountants, therapists, advisers and headhunters.“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. “Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”Bonus CapsFacing a slump in revenue from investment banking and trading, Wall Street firms have trimmed 2011 discretionary pay. At Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Barclays Capital, the cuts were at least 25 percent. Morgan Stanley (MS) capped cash bonuses at $125,000, and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) increased the percentage of deferred pay.Wall Street’s cash bonus pool fell by 14 percent last year to $19.7 billion, the lowest since 2008, according to projections by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.“It’s a disaster,” said Ilana Weinstein, chief executive officer of New York-based search firm IDW Group LLC. “The entire construct of compensation has changed.”Most people can only dream of Wall Street’s shrinking paychecks. Median household income in 2010 was $49,445, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, lower than the previous year and less than 1 percent of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s $7 million restricted-stock bonus for 2011. The percentage of Americans living in poverty climbed to 15.1 percent, the highest in almost two decades.House of MirthComfortable New Yorkers assessing their discomforts is at least as old as Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel “The House of Mirth,” whose heroine Lily Bart said “the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”Wall Street headhunter Daniel Arbeeny said his “income has gone down tremendously.” On a recent Sunday, he drove to Fairway Market in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn to buy discounted salmon for $5.99 a pound.“They have a circular that they leave in front of the buildings in our neighborhood,” said Arbeeny, 49, who lives in nearby Cobble Hill, namesake for a line of pebbled-leather Kate Spade handbags. “We sit there, and I look through all of them to find out where it’s worth going.”$17,000 on DogsExecutive-search veterans who work with hedge funds and banks make about $500,000 in good years, said Arbeeny, managing principal at New York-based CMF Partners LLC, declining to discuss specifics about his own income. He said he no longer goes on annual ski trips to Whistler (WB), Tahoe or Aspen.He reads other supermarket circulars to find good prices for his favorite cereal, Wheat Chex.“Wow, did I waste a lot of money,” Arbeeny said.Richard Scheiner, 58, a real-estate investor and hedge-fund manager, said most people on Wall Street don’t save.“When their means are cut, they’re stuck,” said Scheiner, whose New York-based hedge fund, Lane Gate Partners LLC, was down about 15 percent last year. “Not so much an issue for me and my wife because we’ve always saved.”Scheiner said he spends about $500 a month to park one of his two Audis in a garage and at least $7,500 a year each for memberships at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester and a gun club in upstate New York. A labradoodle named Zelda and a rescued bichon frise, Duke, cost $17,000 a year, including food, health care, boarding and a daily dog-walker who charges $17 each per outing, he said.‘Crushing Setback’Still, he sold two motorcycles he didn’t use and called his Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet “the Volkswagen of supercars.” He and his wife have given more than $100,000 to a nonprofit she founded that promotes employment for people with Asperger syndrome, he said.Scheiner pays $30,000 a year to be part of a New York-based peer-learning group for investors called Tiger 21. Founder Michael Sonnenfeldt said members, most with a net worth of at least $10 million, have been forced to “re-examine lots of assumptions about how grand their life would be.”While they aren’t asking for sympathy, “at their level, in a different way but in the same way, the rug got pulled out,” said Sonnenfeldt, 56. “For many people of wealth, they’ve had a crushing setback as well.”He described a feeling of “malaise” and a “paralysis that does not allow one to believe that generally things are going to get better,” listing geopolitical hot spots such as Iran and low interest rates that have been “artificially manipulated” by the Federal Reserve.Poly PrepThe malaise is shared by Schiff, the New York-based marketing director for Euro Pacific Capital, where his brother is CEO. His family rents the lower duplex of a brownstone in Cobble Hill, where his two children share a room. His 10-year- old daughter is a student at $32,000-a-year Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn. His son, 7, will apply in a few years.“I can’t imagine what I’m going to do,” Schiff said. “I’m crammed into 1,200 square feet. I don’t have a dishwasher. We do all our dishes by hand.”He wants 1,800 square feet -- “a room for each kid, three bedrooms, maybe four,” he said. “Imagine four bedrooms. You have the luxury of a guest room, how crazy is that?”Vegas, IbizaThe family rents a three-bedroom summer house in Connecticut and will go there again this year for one month instead of four. Schiff said he brings home less than $200,000 after taxes, health-insurance and 401(k) contributions. The closing costs, renovation and down payment on one of the $1.5 million 17-foot-wide row houses nearby, what he called “the low rung on the brownstone ladder,” would consume “every dime” of the family’s savings, he said.“I wouldn’t want to whine,” Schiff said. “All I want is the stuff that I always thought, growing up, that successful parents had.”Hans Kullberg, 27, a trader at Wyckoff, New Jersey-based hedge fund Falcon Management Corp. who said he earns about $150,000 a year, is adjusting his sights, too.After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, he spent a $10,000 signing bonus from Citigroup Inc. (C) on a six-week trip to South America. He worked on an emerging-markets team at the bank that traded and marketed synthetic collateralized debt obligations.Wet T-ShirtHis tastes for travel got “a little bit more lavish,” he said. Kullberg, a triathlete, went to a bachelor party in Las Vegas in January after renting a four-bedroom ski cabin at Bear Mountain in California as a Christmas gift to his parents. He went to Ibiza for another bachelor party in August, spending $3,000 on a three-day trip, including a 15-minute ride from the airport that cost $100. In May he spent 10 days in India.Earlier this month, a friend invited him on a trip to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The friend was going to be a judge in a wet T-shirt contest, Kullberg said. He turned down the offer.It wouldn’t have been “the most financially prudent thing to do,” he said. “I’m not totally sure about what I’m going to get paid this year, how I’m going to be doing.”He thinks more about the long term, he said, and plans to buy a foreclosed two-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, for $50,000 next month.M. Todd Henderson, a University of Chicago law professor who’s teaching a seminar on executive compensation, said the suffering is relative and real. He wrote two years ago that his family was “just getting by” on more than $250,000 a year, setting off what he called a firestorm of criticism.“Yes, terminal diseases are worse than getting the flu,” he said. “But you suffer when you get the flu.”‘Have to Cut’Dlugash, the accountant, said he’s spending more time talking with Wall Street clients about their expenses.“You don’t necessarily have to cut that -- but if you don’t cut that, then you’ve got to cut this,” he said. “They say, ‘But I can’t.’ And I say, ‘But you must.’”One banker who owes Dlugash $20,000 gained the accountant’s sympathy despite his six-figure pay.“If you’re making $50,000 and your salary gets down to $40,000 and you have to cut, it’s very severe to you,” Dlugash said. “But it’s no less severe to these other people with these big numbers.”A Wall Street executive who made 10 times that amount and now has declining income along with a divorce, private school tuitions and elderly parents also suffers, he said.“These people never dreamed they’d be making $500,000 a year,” he said, “and dreamed even less that they’d be broke.”
Una de banqueros e ironía; los ricos también lloran:CitarWall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for CouponsBy Max Abelson - Feb 29, 2012(...)"Los 350000 dólares que gana no cubren los gastos familiares"."Imagina vivir en un piso de 1200 pies cuadrados (unos 1200 m2)"."La gente que no tiene dinero no entiende el stress"."No quiero quejarme, sólo tener lo que tienen los padres que tienen éxito".Aparentemente, hay banqueros que sufren porque ganan poco... (Hay que tomárselo en plan irónico, porque, de otro modo, sus declaraciones son directamente obscenas).http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/wall-street-bonus-withdrawal-means-trading-aspen-for-cheap-chex.html
Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for CouponsBy Max Abelson - Feb 29, 2012(...)
Popular promete realizar todas las provisiones en un año aunque se compre UnnimEduardo Segovia - Sígueme en Twitter 02/03/2012 (06:00h)Popular promete realizar todas las provisiones en un año aunque se compre UnnimEl presidente del Banco Popular, Ángel Ron (Efe).El Banco Popular se ha comprometido a renunciar al régimen especial de fusiones del real Decreto de saneamiento del sector financiero en su oferta por Unnim, según confirman fuentes conocedoras de la situación. En la práctica, eso supone que no realizará las nuevas provisiones del ladrillo que exige esta norma en los dos años a que le daría derecho la adquisición, sino sólo en uno; asimismo, realizará las dotaciones contra su cuenta de resultados, y no contra fondos propios (otra de las ventajas de este régimen).Según estas fuentes, este compromiso podría dar cierta ventaja al Popular frente a sus rivales -BBVA e Ibercaja- en la carrera por la fusión de las cajas de Sabadell, Terrassa y Manlleu. No obstante, otras fuentes añaden que en el seno del FROB hay dudas sobre su capacidad para acometer dos adquisiciones a la vez, la del Pastor y la de Unnim, lo que en teoría resta puntos al banco que preside Ángel Ron.Estas dudas son extensibles a Ibercaja tras el anuncio de su fusión con Caja3 el miércoles por la noche. "Para Ibercaja, es vencer o morir, porque no podrá participar en procesos de venta de entidades más grandes", explica una de estas fuentes. La situación de Popular e Ibercaja, por tanto, favorece en teoría a BBVA, que ha pujado con fuerza en la subasta de la entidad catalana.Formalmente, serán los componentes económicos de la oferta -el volumen solicitado como esquema de protección de activos (EPA) y el precio de recompra de los 948 millones de capital público inyectados a Unnim- los que decidan la puja. Sin embargo, estas dudas han llevado al FROB a solicitar en dos ocasiones información complementaria sobre el plan industrial de las entidades pujantes, es decir, los despidos y cierres de oficinas que piensan acometer. Eso es lo que se ha aplazado la adjudicación a la próxima semana, como adelantó hace dos días El Confidencial.El citado régimen especial de fusiones es uno de los principales alicientes ofrecidos por el Gobierno a las entidades para que acometan procesos de integración. Ahora bien, el Popular ya tiene derecho a este régimen porque se aplica a la reciente adquisición del Pastor, pero mantiene su intención de realizar todas las provisiones necesarias en un único ejercicio.Por otro lado, el EPA solicitado cubre al comprador de las pérdidas que afloren en los activos problemáticos de Unnim, básicamente su exposición inmobiliaria, lo que hace innecesario acometer las fuertes provisiones exigidas por el Real Decreto. Es lo que ocurre también en el caso de Sabadell y CAM, donde el enorme EPA concedido (hasta 21.000 millones) exime al banco catalán de acometer los saneamientos teóricamente exigidos por el Decreto en la caja alicantina.Opacidad sobre las exigencias de provisionesPopular cifra en 3.450 millones el impacto del Real Decreto en sus cuentas, sumando 2.600 millones de provisiones (1.800 para los activos tóxicos y 740 para los sanos) y 850 millones de capital. Pese a estas cantidades, la entidad asegura que será capaz de cubrirlas en un año y al mismo tiempo cumplir el requisito de la EBA de un core capital del 9%. Para ello, cuenta con 114 millones de genérica, un margen de explotación estimado para 2012 de 2.000 millones, las plusvalías latentes en sus participaciones y un exceso de capital sobre el regulatorio de 2.220 millones.A estas cantidades hay que añadir las necesidades de provisiones del Pastor, que no se han hecho públicas. Unnim tampoco las ha anunciado, pero el cuaderno de venta de la entidad contemplaba qaue el EPA podía llegar a un máximo de 5.000 millones; la cifra final será inferior, puesto que el vencedor de la puja será el que menos EPA pida y más dinero ofrezca para recomprar el capital del FROB.
“No somos mercancía en manos de políticos y banqueros”. Cuando el pasado 15 de mayo miles de personas se echaron a la calle bajo este lema, la gran novedad era el final del eslogan. Acostumbrados a mantenerse fuera del debate político, los bancos se vieron de pronto colocados en el foco público, y desde entonces no hay protesta en la que falten pancartas y cánticos acusándoles de ser culpables de la crisis. Un escenario de creciente exigencia con las actuaciones de los bancos en el que ya hay quien ha encontrado un nuevo nicho de mercado. Es el caso de Triodos, una entidad cuya política es apoyar exclusivamente a “organizaciones, empresas e instituciones que trabajan para mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas” y que en 2011 creció un 29% en España y dobló su número de clientes.El debate sobre los modelos de banca se ha fraguado al calor de las asambleas de barrio del 15-M y en numerosos foros de Internet, donde han adquirido notoriedad iniciativas como Banca Limpia, que muestra las inversiones y préstamos de los principales bancos del país en la industria armamentística o Cajero Electoral, que las pasadas elecciones pedía el voto directamente para los presidentes de los principales bancos. En la Red circulan también numerosos vídeos de acciones de protesta en sucursales o de intervenciones de activistas en las juntas de accionistas de BBVA o Santander preguntando por sus negocios en sectores controvertidos.Es en este tipo de escenarios digitales donde Triodos busca sus nuevos clientes, y no resulta extraño encontrar sus ‘banners’ en noticias o vídeos relacionados con el malestar social. La entidad se define como “un referente de la banca ética en Europa” y se dirige a todos los que quieren saber qué hace el banco con su dinero mediante una política de total transparencia. De esta manera, los clientes reciben información de forma periódica sobre las empresas financiadas con sus ahorros, siempre relacionadas con “sectores sostenibles de la economía real”, como energías renovables, agricultura biodinámica, instituciones culturales o proyectos de interés social. El banco también posee una amplia lista de sectores en los que no invierte que van desde la industria peletera a la armamentística, pasando por los que utilizan sustancias peligrosas para el medio ambiente. Además, Triodos también actúa sobre otro motivo de indignación popular: no aplica una política de opciones sobre acciones ni bonus a directivos y hace públicas las retribuciones de la alta dirección. En 2011, la diferencia entre el salario más alto y el más bajo fue de 1:9,8. Una serie de rasgos atípicos que están demostrando tener su hueco en el mercado, y no solo en el español, ya que a nivel europeo Triodos tuvo en 2011 un beneficio neto de 17,3 millones de euros, un 51% más que el año anterior.
La megainyección del BCE no frena los depósitos: los bancos 'aparcan' 820.000 millones en el banco central
Los bancos de la eurozona siguen percibiendo incertidumbres en los mercados y prefieren no mover el dinero. Según los últimos datos del BCE -del cierre del 2 de marzo-, las entidades elevaron sus depósitos hasta los 820.000 millones de euros tras la megainyección que hizo la autoridad monetaria el pasado 29 de febrero, en la que los bancos pidieron 529.531 millones prestados. Se trata de un nuevo récord en los depósitos desde la existencia de la moneda única. La anterior cifra de depósitos -previa a la subasta- era de 776.900 millones de euros. Los bancos reciben un interés bajísimo, del 0,25%, por estos depósitos en el BCE. Los datos conocidos hoy ponen de manifiesto que la inyección de liquidez que han llevado el Banco Central Europeo, tras la que hizo en diciembre por casi medio billón de euros, no está sirviendo para que el crédito fluya y el dinero llegue a la economía y que las tensiones persisten en los mercados financieros. José Manuel González-Páramo, miembro del BCE, ha dicho esta mañana en unas jornadas que "el mayor aumento de las peticiones de crédito al BCE se ha dado en bancos pequeños ". Respecto a si el crédito mejorará, ha señalado que "habrá crédito en los sitios que haya demanda"
bankia ha recibido de Europa el 21 de Dic y anteayer la friolera de 40.000 MILLONES de euros
Bankia recibe 40.000 millones del BCEBankia recibe 25.000 millones de euros del Banco Central Europeo por medio de la subasta de liquidez a tres años que se celebró este miércoles. Bankia es hasta ahora el banco que más se ha beneficiado de estos fondos, puesto que además de percibir la cifra más elevada entre las entidades participantes ya había recibido 15.000 millones en la subasta del 21 de diciembre.Por detrás de Bankia, la entidad de origen italiano Intesa Sanpaolo es el segundo mayor usuario de la facilidad de liquidez a tres años del BCE, alcanzando un volumen de ayudas de 36.000 millones, después de percibir 12.000 millones en diciembre y 24.000 en la subasta de este pasado miércoles. El Banco BBVA obtuvo 11.000 millones entre ambas subastas.Entre los principales receptores de fondos del Banco Central Europeo a través de estas operaciones encontramos, aparte de Bankia e Intesa Sanpaolo, a Unicredit, con de 23.500 millones, de los que 10.000 millones corresponderían a la operación del 29 de febrero, y BBVA, que habría obtenido 11.000 millones tanto en la subasta de este miércoles como en la del 21 de diciembre.En definitiva fueron de origen italiano y español, las entidades que más se han beneficiado de este tipo de fondos procedentes del Banco Central Europeo, ascendiendo a los 139.000 y 12.000 millones respectivamente.Dexia, la institución de origen francobelga, con un total de 32.500 millones correspondiendo 12.500 a la subasta que se celebró en febrero y 20.000 a la celebrada en diciembre, se enmarca como la tercera de las cinco entidades que más volumen de recursos captaron del Banco Central Europeo.De este modo, casi la mitad de las entidades que se dieron cita en la subasta del miércoles son de origen alemán, a pesar de que el volumen de fondos agregado que han recibido ascendió a menos de 100.000 millones de euros. Este hecho nos indica que la mayor parte de estos fondos fue destinado a pequeñas entidades regionales.Hasta hoy han sido muy pocas las entidades que han informado públicamente acerca de su participación en estas subastas, a pesar de que el Banco Central Europeo ha intentado por todos los medios desestigmatizar el uso de este tipo de fondos. Barclays publicaba este viernes que, a pesar de no formar parte de la subasta en diciembre recibió 8.200 millones en febrero que tiene planeado destinar a sanear sus negocios en España y Portugal. Del mismo modo, Banca Cívica informó de que ha captado 6.100 millones en la última subasta de liquidez a tres años, después de haber recibido otros 3.700 en la operación de diciembre.
ElConfidencial.com > Economía y Empresas > Eduardo SegoviaEL GOBIERNO CONSIDERA INADMISIBLE UN MAYOR COSTE PARA EL CONTRIBUYENTELos bancos exigen garantías con dinero público para participar en las nuevas fusionesEduardo Segovia - Sígueme en Twitter 06/03/2012 (06:00h)Los bancos más solventes se plantan: exigen al Gobierno que aporte garantías contra pérdidas futuras (EPA, esquemas de protección de activos) con dinero público si quiere dar salida a las entidades intervenidas o nacionalizadas, en especial CatalunyaCaixa y NovaCaixaGalicia. Y no sólo eso, sino que el sector considera imprescindibles estos instrumentos para que las entidades más sólidas participen en la segunda oleada de fusiones que el Ejecutivo quiere propiciar con su reforma financiera. Sin embargo, Economía considera "inadmisible" que se utilicen más fondos públicos para rescatar entidades financieras.Algunos se atreven incluso a expresar esta demanda en público. Es el caso de Jaume Guardiola, consejero delegado del Sabadell, que aseguró ayer que, "si la salida tiene que ser un proceso de concentración en el que participen las entidades más solventes, es difícil que se lleve a cabo sin ayudas para esquemas de pérdidas". En el Encuentro Financiero Internacional organizado por Bankia, añadió que "si los recursos tienen que salir del sector privado, van a ser mucho más exiguos".Roberto Higueras, vicepresidente del Popular, coincidió con él a este respecto: "Hace falta menos sistema financiero para financiar a una economía más pequeña. Y hay que consolidar las entidades más débiles mediante ayudas a las más fuertes o algún tipo de líneas de liquidez o capital".En privado, los banqueros son todavía más agresivos. "Es imposible que se quede nadie con las entidades nacionalizadas si no hay un EPA que les cubra las pérdidas. Además, después del que se ha dado a Sabadell para comprar la CAM, todo el mundo quiere lo mismo", señalan en una entidad que prefiere mantener el anonimato. Otra añade que "tiene que haber dinero público, con el Fondo de Garantía de Depósitos es insuficiente para cubrir los procesos de venta de Unnim, Banco de Valencia, CatalunyaCaixa y NovaGalicia". "Y los CoCos (convertibles contingentes) no parecen adecuados para la venta de entidades sino para que éstas puedan seguir en solitario", añade una terceraEl problema es que el Gobierno lo considera inadmisible. "No le puede costar un euro más al contribuyente, del FROB no va a ser el dinero para los esquemas de protección de activos", afirman tajantemente fuentes oficiales del Ministerio que dirige Luis de Guindos. La solución que prefiere el Ejecutivo es ampliar los recursos del FGD mediante derramas o endeudamiento. "Este Real Decreto Ley permite adelantar las aportaciones futuras que tendrán que realizar las entidades al FGD", añaden estas fuentes.Este adelanto podría ser realizado por el Estado, ya que se trataría de un préstamo en condiciones de mercado. Eso no supondría incremento del déficit ni de la deuda públicos, ya que no se consideraría ayuda de Estado por Bruselas: es un préstamo o un anticipo, no una subvención, y el Estado recuperará el dinero en el futuro con intereses.¿QUé pasa con las entidades que no están nacionalizadas?Otro problema adicional es cómo aportar esas garantías en aquellas entidades que, aunque se encuentran en una situación de debilidad y deben protagonizar una integración casi sin remedio, se mantienen independientes y sin capital público. En teoría, en esos casos no es posible conceder un EPA, pero los bancos más solventes exigen estas garantías para hacerse cargo de estas entidades.Un ejemplo de actualidad es el de Caja España-Duero, ya que Unicaja pide ahora un EPA de 1.200 millones para continuar con la fusión con la caja castellano-leonesa. Sin embargo, el Banco de España y Economía se niegan a concederlo al no estar intervenida. La eventual fusión de La Caixa y Bankia se encontraría con el mismo obstáculo.Sin embargo, sí hay una solución: como se trata de entidades que han recibido dinero del FROB 1 en forma de préstamos, el Banco de España puede agarrarse al precepto que le autoriza a convertir anticipadamente esos préstamos (preferentes) en capital si considera que la entidad no estará en disposición de devolver el dinero. Si la valoración que realice un experto independiente considera que el dinero del FROB supone la mayoría del capital -como así ha sido en todas las nacionalizaciones hasta ahora-, éste estaría en disposición de conceder un EPA a los compradores. Ahora bien, sería inevitable realizar la venta mediante un procedimiento de subasta competitiva.
Cómo Bankia concedía hipotecas de VPO por cinco veces su valorLa entidad financiera consigna en el mismo documento el precio de venta y el de la hipoteca, cinco veces superiorBarcelona. La delictiva burbuja inmobiliaria suelta documentos de compra-venta e hipotecas, no solo incomprensibles, sino sin duda de pura estafa. ¡En España no existían las hipotecas ninja o subprime! En este caso la duda radica en quienes de la propia plantilla de la caja e inmobiliarias afines, incluso profesionales (notarios o registradores de la propiedad) actuaban conscientes de participar en un 'digamos enredo'… hasta que algún juez catalogue de delito.Si a los vecinos de Badía del Vallés, decía hace unos días, la Fiscalía "les envió por escrito a hacer puñetas", porque de eso se trata cuando les contesta que si acaso deberían acudir por la jurisdicción Contencioso Administrativa, y cuanto menos la Generalitat de Montilla y la Caixa de Cataluña de Narcís Serra pergeñan un pastel donde ni se las desahucia ni pagan, los vecinos del Polígono Gornal de Hospitalet del Llobregat, reclamado el cobro de unas hipotecas (en este caso 180.000 euros, ver fotocopias) cuya vivienda tasa la Generalitat en 27.393,62, ni encuentran la inmobiliaria que tramitó la operación, y la Caja de Madrid se sume en eterno y profundo silencio.El mismo día de 2004, ante notario se efectúa la compra-venta en la que el vendedor firma recibir el valor que por escrito señala Adigsa de la Generalitat, y acto seguido se grava la vivienda en 180.000 euros. Pero además, cuando se profundiza en la operación por abonada la hipoteca en una libreta, al importe oficial pagado al vendedor le siguen varias sospechosas cantidades que pretendido ahora su desglose y causa… "no saben, no contestan".Ante alguno de los afectados debo contener mis sarcasmos… pues si son corrientes los cuasilegales 'okupas' que aceptan hasta que se les embargue de 'por vida', los hay que pagaron bastantes millones, y no les hace maldita gracia que se les estafara cuando firmaron sin leer lo que les ponían delante, y aún leyéndolo no hubieran entendido nada.Continuará…