BUSINESS

The unanswered questions about banks that are 'too big to fail'

Business, Teera Phutrakul, Published on 06/10/2017

» The recent announcement by the Bank of Thailand instructing the country's five biggest banks to beef up their capital reserves caused a minor panic among some of my elderly relatives. Who can blame them when regulators use jargon that sounds like ancient Greek to most people? Basel III, D-SIBs, Tier-1 capital ratio, just to name a few.