Financial crisis
Rethinking regulation of the modern financial system
Bank of Italy’s Maurizio Trapanese writes that rules need to address uncertainty as well as measurable risks, entity types as well as activities, and should not be overly complex
BoE’s Saporta floats idea of countercyclical liquidity buffer
Design of Basel III rules may be causing banks to hoard capital and liquidity, official says
Chinese authorities step in amid banking crisis in Henan
Promise to repay depositors follows violent clashes between account-holders and local security officials
Asian central banks deploy FX reserves to prop up currencies
Analysts remain confident in Asia’s financial stability, but recession risks are building
IMF paper proposes ‘policy space index’
Authors try to quantify countries’ room to respond to a “black swan” event
FSB and IMF wrap up post-crisis data gaps initiative
Some issues remain despite “significant progress” since 2009, report finds
BoE finds ‘shortcomings’ in three UK banks’ resolution plans
Central bank’s first resolvability assessment concludes banks can now fail “safely”
Book notes: Two hundred years of muddling through, by Duncan Weldon
Insights into UK economic history offer lessons for today’s policy-makers
BoE paper examines microstructure of UK banking system
Authors stitch together supervisory datasets to study likelihood of crisis
Peter Nicholl on rebuilding Bosnia’s central bank
The former RBNZ deputy governor speaks with Dan Hardie about how he tackled financial instability in the aftermath of a war
Shadow banks need macro-pru regimes – Bundesbank paper
Limits on shadow banks’ leverage could have helped avert global financial crisis, researcher finds
Paper explains why ‘Fed put’ is not as reliable as investors might like
Disagreement between Fed and market can create perception central bank is “behind the curve”
Tackling private-sector debt in the wake of the pandemic
Navigating Covid-19 debt is more of a challenge amid gathered storms of inflation and war, write Roong Mallikamas and Benjamin Weigert
Book notes: Tumultuous times, by Masaaki Shirakawa
A rare and refreshingly honest description of a governorship that spanned a series of crises
How to stop stablecoins from hoarding precious collateral
Repo markets expert and crypto bank chief exec think Fed reserves are the right answer
Central bankers have lost sight of inflation
Inflation resurgence comes after central bankers were distracted from their primary task by climate and crypto, combined with an overreliance on new Keynesian approaches
Shadow banks: the biggest threat to US financial stability?
Non-bank risks may be the greatest problem facing the Fed’s incoming vice-chair for supervision
Fed paper examines non-bank emergency facility
More flexible investors tapped facility earlier, doing more to stabilise markets
HKMA advances e-HKD exploration
Authority notes risks around cyber security and removing intermediary banks
The international effort to manage NBFI risks: where do we stand?
The Covid-19 shock demonstrated more needs to be done to address stability risks posed by the NBFI sector. Maurizio Trapanese details progress made during the Italian G20 presidency as well as outstanding macro-prudential issues
BoE paper finds benefits from swing pricing
Cost-benefit analysis suggests net benefit to curbing non-bank liquidity risk through swing pricing
War forcing central banks into ‘delicate balancing act’, says IMF
Sudden repricing of risk could expose vulnerabilities, fund says in latest stability report
Research provides deeper look into Riksbank’s policy decisions
Swedish central bank developed a flexible, faster deliberation process when dealing with pandemic
Is a bond market crisis imminent?
Central banks need careful action and a good dose of luck if they are to avoid financial instability