Prof. Dr. Fidelio Tata

Professor of Finance

Prof. Dr. Fidelio Tata is a leading financial market specialist with ~25 years of executive experience in derivatives marketing, institutional sales, risk management, global fixed-income research and bank advisory. From 2013 to 2017, Fidelio was a manager at zeb with focus on investment banking, capital markets and institutional business. He is currently teaching at the International School of Management in Berlin.

Contact

fidelio@fideliotata.com

Articles by Prof. Dr. Fidelio Tata

Corporate and Investment Banking After a Hard Brexit

09/04/2018

Propositions on the Impact on Frankfurt

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Brexit does not kill the Financial Markets: An Ode to Regulatory Oversight

29/06/2016

Brexit – The unthinkable! While most market commentary is focusing on what has happened so far, there is less attention to the financial market meltdown that failed to materialize.

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Getting banks ready for a turn in the European credit cycle

07/06/2015

How the danger of a turning credit cycle creates risk and opportunities for banks

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Are banks worth more dead than alive?

24/02/2015

How to explain banks’ equity value despite an eroded ROE.

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How Central Banks create incomplete markets

16/02/2015

Case Study Swiss National Bank: Monetary policy causing market segregation

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Does non-interest income boost banks’ bottom lines?

21/01/2015

A recent study offers some promising empirical evidence about whether bank performance is positively impacted by diversification into non-traditional (ie, non-interest income related) activities

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Nuclear vs. Financial Market Meltdowns

23/10/2014

How effective is government regulation in reducing high-consequence accidents?

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Déjà-vu: Negative Interest Rates

05/06/2014

As of today, the ECB is entering unchartered territory after having lowered the overnight deposit rate to -0.1%. This is what it means for relative value / arbitrage opportunities.

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Killing banks softly – Deflation is coming!

02/06/2014

One of my favorite charts is showing the decoupling of the long-term risk-free interest rate in the U.S. versus the one in Europe (Graph 1). Until about half a year ago, rates moved in lockstep – then suddenly, U.S. rates pushed higher, while German Bond yields remained low. What happened was that the US dodged the bullet of deflation after the Fed’s massive quantitative easing program finally having gained traction. U.S. employment is picking up again and economic growth is moving higher. However, Europe, for the better part, remains plagued by mass-unemployment and low growth, with the economy on the brink of deflation.

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