Swimming with Sharks, Part Seven: Complexity

June 22, 2017

Swimming with Sharks, Part Seven: Complexity

Last week we left off with the climate of fear and how this climate leads to increasingly risky positions for investment bankers and banks.  This week we will cover complexity.

In Swimming with Sharks:  Inside the World of the Bankers, author Joris Lujendijk quotes Alistair Darling, Labour Chancellor of England during the 2008 crash.  Alistair Darling wrote later about banks that were “too big to fail,”but also about a new category of institution he described as, banks that were “too big to know what’s going on.”(1) 

The complexity within today’s investment banks is staggering.  Lujendijk’s interviews revealed that it is simply not even possible for upper level management in many investment banks today to understand the complexities of their risks, complexities of the financial products bought and sold, complexities of their computer systems and the “logic” built into these computer systems that directs the trading and risk management of the bank.  If the complexity cannot be understood by executive management, then it is not possible to manage that complexity and risk appropriately.

“Quant” is the nickname given to those who, with proficiency in higher level math, physics, or the like, often develop the algorithms that control the computer systems within the banks which manage trading and risk.  One of the “quants” interviewed by Lujendijk complained, “Even the risk and compliance people who were supposed to be our internal checks and balances…we had to teach them how to monitor us.”(2)

When you partner an increasing degree of complexity with big dollars, very high-speed trading and rapidly changing market conditions, increasing levels of risk, and decreasing levels of loyalty, you have the recipe for another financial disaster.  Certainly, another collapse is coming.  Just when it will arrive is the only question.  Trying to time your investments around that collapse is very, very risky.

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