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Regulating Shadow Banking: Challenges And Solutions

Explore the regulatory challenges in shadow banking and the potential solutions. Understand the complexities involved in market-mediated banking and the integration of markets and institutions. Delve into the role of the safety net pre and post Dodd Frank. Discover the impact of market-based intermediation on the financial system and evaluate the effectiveness of bank-centered regulation in this evolving landscape.

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Regulating Shadow Banking: Challenges And Solutions

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  1. Regulating Shadow Banking:Challenges And Solutions Marcus Stanley Policy Director Americans for Financial Reform

  2. Market-mediated banking • Banking services: • Maturity, liquidity, and risk transformation. • Performed through long, complex credit intermediation chains, not single institutions. • Links in chains are often market trades. • Transformation relies on supposed ‘safety’. • Guarantees from institutions. • Collateralization. • Subordination.

  3. The Challenges To Regulation • The safety net vs. market discipline. • Integration of markets and institutions. • Complex market-based intermediation chains. • Ease of risk transfer and activity migration. • Key question: will bank-centered regulation work?

  4. Shadow Banking And the Safety Net • Shadow banking relies on private guarantees. • Private safety net is systemically unreliable. • Systemic event creates pressure on government to back private guarantees. • Private sector expansion of implicit safety net. • And even the explicit safety net is unclear. • 2007-09 bailout: violated LOLR principles. • Can market discipline work?

  5. The Safety Net Post Dodd Frank • Deposit Insurance • May be more limited – swaps push out? • Federal Reserve 13(3) authority. • Nominally more limited, but in practice? • Treasury liquidity line for resolution. • Liquidity support for clearinghouses. • Exchange stabilization fund, FDIC guarantees. • Clearly better controls here.

  6. Integration of Markets and Institutions • Can our fragmented regulatory system handle it? • Glass-Steagal regulation in a new financial world. • Market vs. prudential regulators. • Round 1: Money market funds. • Round 2: Asset managers? • Round 3: Wholesale funding markets? • Can the FSOC mediate these divisions? • Will the Federal Reserve emerge as de facto global regulator?

  7. Complex Market-Based Intermediation • Complexity multiplies opportunities for deception of counterparties and regulators. • Limited progress at Office of Financial Research? • Leverage can ‘hide’. • Collateral chains, embedded leverage. • Market linkages increase fragility. • Procyclicality, link to unstable market prices. • Hard to trace market connections – fire sales.

  8. Will Bank-Centered Regulation Work? • Banks were central but not only guarantors in the shadow banking system. • Ease of risk transfer outside regulated banks. • Basel still permits risk transfer from banks to outside guarantors -- ‘eligible risk guarantors’. • Derivatives markets. • Competition from market-mediated banking. • Again: market discipline and the safety net.

  9. Solutions That Are ‘On The Table’ • Solution #1: Leverage/risk management at major banks and designated SIFIs. • Solution #2: Leverage/risk management in funding, risk transfer markets. • Margin, collateral, haircuts, clearing. • Solution #3: Activity limitations, but maintain connections between banks and traded markets. • Issue #1: Will market discipline + oversight ‘work’ to address migration in response to controls? • Issue #2: Hidden leverage and exposures?

  10. Solutions That Are NOT ‘On The Table,’ But Should Be • Address complexity bias in regulation. • Clearer, more strategic safety net. • Protect key activities, minimize moral hazard. • Greater public role in financial system. • Infrastructure and/or services. • Restore favored role of banking vs. trading. • Change culture of risk transfer – fiduciary. • What is finance for?

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