The banking industry might well be better capitalized than ever before, with more diverse and resilient funding and liquidity. And tough stress testing in the US and now in Europe through the asset quality review that was last year’s pre-occupation, might offer some comfort that banks are not stuffed with rotten assets, as they were in 2008. But that alone does not make the banks good investments for providers of equity or debt capital.
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Further reading • Regulators still calling the shots |
It’s not clear yet that banks are running business models that can sustainably generate a higher return on equity than their cost of equity in future.
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