Woolf: Maintaining the deception

Accounting rules prevent banks from adequately provisioning for future loan losses, but is this realistic, asks Emile Woolf

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ goes the cliché. But what if it really is broke? You can alleviate the symptoms but you can’t cure the disease while the root-cause remains.

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