{"id":2838,"date":"2014-04-26T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2014-04-28T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T00:26:03","slug":"institutional-investor-april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Investor (April 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To strengthen their balance sheets, large banks (including Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Barclays) have been reducing their commodities businesses, mainly through sales to independent trading companies. With these sales \u201cto smaller players, conflicts of interest remain a potential problem\u201d and nobody\u2019s sure whether new problems will accompany this major shift. Given the skinnier balance sheets of the new players, market liquidity could conceivably suffer. In addition, \u201cconcerns abound that the underlying problems that have traditionally beset the commodities markets are simply being pushed onto a new and less tightly regulated set of actors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To strengthen their balance sheets, large banks (including Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Barclays) have been reducing their commodities businesses, mainly through sales to independent trading companies. With these sales \u201cto smaller players, conflicts of interest remain a potential problem\u201d and nobody\u2019s sure whether new problems will accompany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1717,85,1416,675,3616,481,503,1317,1524,3618,3615,3617,1260,659],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-balance-sheets","tag-banks","tag-barclays","tag-commodities","tag-conflicts-of-interest","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-jpmorgan-chase","tag-liquidity","tag-morgan-stanley","tag-regulated","tag-royal-bank-of-scotland","tag-shift","tag-trading","tag-ubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}