What Makes a Bank Systemically Important?

What Makes a Bank Systemically Important?

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781981326792

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What makes a bank systemically important? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session ... July 16, 2014.


What Makes a Bank Systemically Important?

What Makes a Bank Systemically Important?

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-09-17

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781976465901

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What makes a bank systemically important? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session ... July 16, 2014.


Interconnectedness of Global Systemically-Important Banks and Insurers

Interconnectedness of Global Systemically-Important Banks and Insurers

Author: Sheheryar Malik

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1484323955

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Interconnectedness among global systemically important banks (GSIBs) and global systemically important insurers (GSIIs) has important financial stability implications. This paper examines connectedness among United States, European and Asian GSIBs and GSIIs, using publicly-available daily equity returns and intra-day volatility data from October 2007 to August 2016. Results reveal strong regional clusters of return and volatility connectedness amongst GSIBs and GSIIs. Compared to Asia, selected GSIBs and GSIIs headquartered in the United States and Europe appear to be main sources of market-based connectedness. Total system connectedness—i.e., among all GSIBs and GSIIs—tends to rise during financial stress, which is corroborated by a balance sheet oriented systemic risk measure. Lastly, the paper demonstrates significant influence of economic policy uncertainty and U.S. long-term interest rates on total connectedness among systemically important institutions, and the important role of bank profitability and asset quality in driving bank-specific return connectedness.


The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions

The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions

Author: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780894991967

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Provides an in-depth overview of the Federal Reserve System, including information about monetary policy and the economy, the Federal Reserve in the international sphere, supervision and regulation, consumer and community affairs and services offered by Reserve Banks. Contains several appendixes, including a brief explanation of Federal Reserve regulations, a glossary of terms, and a list of additional publications.


Creating a Safer Financial System

Creating a Safer Financial System

Author: José Vinãls

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1484340949

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The U.S., the U.K., and more recently, the E.U., have proposed policy measures directly targeting complexity and business structures of banks. Unlike other, price-based reforms (e.g., Basel 3 and G-SIFI surcharges), these proposals have been developed unilaterally with material differences in scope, design and implementation schedules. This may exacerbate cross-border regulatory arbitrage and put a further burden on consolidated supervision and cross-border resolution. This paper provides an analysis of the potential implications of implementing different structural policy measures. It proposes a pragmatic and coordinated approach to development of these policies to reduce risk of regulatory arbitrage and minimize unintended consequences. In doing so, it also aims to identify a set of common policy measures that countries could adopt to re-scope bank business models and corporate structures.


Filling in the Blanks

Filling in the Blanks

Author: Kartik Anand

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13:

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The network pattern of financial linkages is important in many areas of banking and finance. Yet bilateral linkages are often unobserved, and maximum entropy serves as the leading method for estimating counterparty exposures. This paper proposes an efficient alternative that combines information-theoretic arguments with economic incentives to produce more realistic interbank networks that preserve important characteristics of the original interbank market. The method loads the most probable links with the largest exposures consistent with the total lending and borrowing of each bank, yielding networks with minimum density. When used in a stress-testing context, the minimum density solution overestimates contagion, whereas maximum entropy underestimates it. Using the two benchmarks side by side defines a useful range that bounds the cost of systemic stress present in the true interbank network when counterparty exposures are unknown.


Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector

Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector

Author: Douglas W. Arner

Publisher: Cigi Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781928096887

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The 2008 global financial crisis brought the world's economy closer to collapse than ever before. Has enough been done to prevent another crisis?


Banking's Final Exam

Banking's Final Exam

Author: Morris Goldstein

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0881327069

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Spurred by the success of the first stress test of US banks toward the end of the global economic crisis in 2009, stress testing of large financial institutions has become the cornerstone of banking supervision worldwide. The aim of the tests is to determine which banks are adequately capitalized under severe economic shocks and to order corrective measures for those that are vulnerable. In Banking’s Final Exam, one of the world’s leading experts on banking regulation concludes that the tests administered on both sides of the Atlantic suffer from fundamental weaknesses, leading to a false sense of reassurance about the safety and soundness of the banking system. Some weaknesses can be corrected within the existing bank-capital regime, but others will require bold reforms—including higher minimum capital requirements for the largest and most systemically-important banks. The banking industry is likely to resist these reforms, but this book explains why their objections do not hold water.