Micro-prudential policy ‘bulwark’ against systemic risks, says San Fran Fed’s Williams

Prevalence of shadow banks limits use of conventional macro-pru tools

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John Williams

The prevalence of ‘shadow banks' in the US "severely limits" the ability to impose macro-prudential restrictions such as loan-to-value limits, according to Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president John Williams.

Addressing the Symposium on Asian Banking and Finance in Singapore today (May 28), Williams added: "Micro-prudential regulation and supervision will for the foreseeable future be the bulwark against systemic risk."

Nonetheless, he said, there are "important ways in which a macro

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