Consolidated Regulation and Supervision in the United States
IMF Working Papers, January 1, 2011
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- Authors: Ashok Vir Bhatia
- Published: January 1, 2011
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455211920.001
Overview and purpose
- Author: Ashok Vir Bhatia
- Publication date: January 1, 2011
- Builds on: a Technical Note produced as part of the IMF’s 2010 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) review of the United States.
- Core focus: enterprise-wide oversight of financial groups as a tool to mitigate systemic risk, with emphasis on legal arrangements.
Key findings
- Enterprise-wide (consolidated) oversight is a key tool to mitigate systemic risk for financial groups.
- Existing legal arrangements create exceptions and inconsistencies that weaken consolidated supervision.
- Some nonbank financial groups with systemic relevance lie outside the consolidated regulatory perimeter.
Principal policy recommendations
- Eliminate exceptions for holding companies owning certain limited-purpose banks.
- Harmonize arrangements for bank and thrift holding companies.
- Bring into the regulatory perimeter a few systemic nonbank financial groups.
- Designate the Federal Reserve as the sole consolidated regulator and supervisor.
Subject coverage and keywords
- Subject areas: Banking; Brokers and dealers; Commercial banks; Consolidated banking supervision; Financial institutions; Financial markets; Financial regulation and supervision; Securities.
- Keywords (as provided): Bank holding company; Brokers and dealers; Commercial banks; company; consoldated regulation; Consolidated banking supervision; consolidated supervision; derivative product company; Europe; Fed oversight; Fed umbrella supervision; full-scope securities underwriting; futures commission merchants; Global; group structure; holding company; investment banking group; net capital; nonfinancial group; savings and loan holding company; Securities; securities broker-dealers; securities broker-dealing; WP