81 posts on "Regulation"
January 9, 2013
Ring‑Fencing and “Financial Protectionism” in International Banking
Some market watchers and academic researchers are concerned about a “Balkanization” of banking, owing to a sharp decline in cross-border international banking activity, and an increased home bias of financial transactions.
Posted at 7:00 am in Banks, Financial Institutions, International Economics, Liquidity, Regulation | Permalink
December 31, 2012
Why Isn’t the Thirty‑Year Fixed‑Rate Mortgage at 2.6 Percent?
As of mid-December, the average thirty-year fixed-rate mortgage was near its historic low of about 3.3 percent, or half its level in August 2007 when financial turmoil began.
September 17, 2012
The Odd Behavior of Repo Haircuts during the Financial Crisis
Since the financial crisis began, there’s been substantial debate on the role of haircuts in U.S. repo markets.
July 23, 2012
A Principle for Forward‑Looking Monitoring of Financial Intermediation: Follow the Banks!
In the previous posts in this series on the evolution of banks and financial intermediaries, my colleagues and I considered the extent to which banks still play a central role in financial intermediation, given the rise of the shadow banking system.
Posted at 7:02 am in Banks, Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediation, Regulation | Permalink | Comments (1)
July 16, 2012
Introducing a Series on the Evolution of Banks and Financial Intermediation
It used to be simple: Asked how to describe financial intermediation, you would just mention the word “bank.”
Posted at 9:00 am in Banks, Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediation, Financial Markets, Nonbank (NBFI), Regulation | Permalink
April 30, 2012
The Impact of Trade Reporting on the Interest Rate Derivatives Market
In recent years, regulators in the United States and abroad have begun to strengthen regulations governing over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading, driven by concerns over the decentralized and opaque nature of current trading practices.
February 15, 2012
February 6, 2012
How Has the Business of International Banking Changed?
In this post, I focus on the broad historical progression of international banking activity.
Posted at 7:00 am in Financial Institutions, International Economics, Regulation, Tariffs | Permalink
November 23, 2011
How Might Increased Transparency Affect the CDS Market?
The credit default swap (CDS) market has grown rapidly since the asset class was developed in the 1990s.
April 4, 2011
CoVaR: A Measure of Systemic Risk
Wonk alert: technical content — During the 2007-09 financial crisis, we saw that losses spread rapidly across institutions, threatening the entire financial system. Distress spread from structured investment vehicles to traditional deposit-taking banks and on to investment banks, and the failures of individual institutions had outsized impacts on the financial system. These spillovers were realizations of systemic risk—the risk that the distress of an individual institution, or a group of institutions, will induce financial instability on a broader scale, distorting the supply of credit to the real economy. In this post, we draw on our working paper “CoVaR”—issued in the New York Fed’s Staff Reports series—to do two things: first, propose a new measure of systemic risk and, second, outline a method that can help bring about the early detection of systemic risk buildup.
Posted at 10:00 am in Crisis, Fed Funds, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, Regulation, Systemic Risk | Permalink
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