"Puts" in the Shadow

 
Author/Editor: Singh, Manmohan
 
Publication Date: September 01, 2012
 
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Summary: In the aftermath of the Lehman crisis, payouts (i.e., taxpayer bailouts) in various forms were provided by governments to a variety of financial institutions and markets that were outside the regulatory perimeter - the "shadow" banking system. Although recent regulatory proposals attempt to reduce these "puts", we provide examples from non-banking activities within a bank, money market funds, Triparty repo, OTC derivatives market, collateral with central banks, and issuance of floating rate notes etc., that these risks remain. We suggest that a regulatory environment where puts are not ambiguous will likely lower the cost of bail-outs after a crisis.
 
Series: Working Paper No. 12/229
Subject(s): Banking systems | Financial institutions | Nonbank financial sector | Shadow economy

Author's Keyword(s): shadow banking | money market funds | tri-party repo | OTC derivatives | CCPs | Floating Rate Notes | collateral | SIFIs | SIBs | non-banks
 
English
Publication Date: September 01, 2012
Format: Paper
Stock No: WPIEA2012229 Pages: 21
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