When the financial system rumbles, everyone looks at the stock markets. In fact, that can be quite misleading. These three charts show how global banking really is.
From
Victor Gojdka, Frankfurt
Perhaps it may seem daring that in cool finance, of all things, something as ephemeral as trust matters. Not hard numbers, millions and billions are said to have been decisive in the case of the collapsed banks – but of all things a gut feeling. And yet a concept as fleeting as trust in the financial system can also be measured.