Foreword : Financial Markets: Are we heading back to normality?

First Published in e-Forex Magazine October 2009

Manfred Wiebogen

Manfred Wiebogen

President ACI, The Financial Markets Association

Some economies are showing signs of recovery. Will it be sustainable? Will the financial markets industry find a way back to 'normality'? What will be the consequences for the FX markets? The financial crisis has highlighted just how little is known about the structure of banks' international balance sheets and other issues of interconnectedness. Nowadays we are all waiting for what the regulatory environment comes up with next....


Whilst George Soros recently explained "The way out of a deflationary trap is to first induce inflation and then to reduce it" he tried to anticipate the likelihood of a raising yield curve on the back of a recovering economy but also of a massive demand in funding requirements by some governments for their spending programs.

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