Leverage ratio disincentives clearing – BoE paper

Leverage ratio appears to have made some banks less willing to take on new clients

Bank of England

The leverage ratio appears to have reduced banks’ incentives to offer clearing services, a staff working paper published by the Bank of England finds.

Jonathan Acosta-Smith, Gerardo Ferrara and Francesc Rodriguez-Tous note that while margin posted on centrally-cleared transactions reduces risk-based capital requirements, it has no effect in reducing measures of exposure in the leverage ratio.

They test for a possible disincentive effect on clearing banks using trade repository data and

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