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Chapter Sixteen. Commercial Banking Industry: Structure and Competition. Historical Development of the Banking Industry. Figure 16-1: Time Line of the Early History of Commercial Banking in the United States. Historical Development of the Banking Industry.
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Chapter Sixteen Commercial Banking Industry: Structure and Competition
Historical Development of the Banking Industry Figure 16-1:Time Line of the Early History of Commercial Banking in the United States
Historical Development of the Banking Industry • Outcome: Multiple Regulatory Agencies • Federal Reserve • FDIC • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency • State Banking Authorities
Structure of the Commercial Banking Industry FDIC statistics on banking http://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/index.html
Ten Largest U.S. Banks World’s 100 largest banks http://interactive.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/wb00-100-fpublic-2000-09-25.htm
Branching Regulations • Branching Restrictions: Very Anti-competitive • Response to Branching Restrictions • Bank Holding Companies • Allowed purchases of banks outside state • BHCs allowed wider scope of activities by Fed • BHCs dominant form of corporate structure for banks • Nonbank Banks • Not subject to branching regulations, but loophole closed in 1987 • Automated Teller Machines • Not considered to be branch of bank, so networks allowed
Bank Consolidation and Number of Banks Figure 16-2:Number of Insured Commercial Banks in the United States, 1934–2001 Quarterly banking profile http://www2.fdic.gov/qbp/qbpSelect.asp?menuItem=QBP
Nationwide Banking and Bank Consolidation • Bank Consolidation: Why? • Branching restrictions weakened • Development of superregional banks • Riegle-Neal Act of 1994 • Allows full interstate branching • Promotes further consolidation • Future of Industry Structure • Will become more like other countries, but not quite: • Several thousand, not several hundred
Nationwide Banking and Bank Consolidation • Bank Consolidation: A Good Thing? • Cons • Fear of decline of small banks and small business lending • Rush to consolidation may increase risk taking • Pros • Community banks will survive • Increase competition • Increased diversification of bank loan portfolios: lessens likelihood of failures
Separation of Banking and Securities Industries: Glass-Steagall • Case for Glass-Steagall • FDIC gives unfair advantage to banks • Allowing banks into underwriting is dangerous because FDIC promotes too much risk taking • Potential conflicts of interest • Case Against Glass-Steagall • Decreases competition • Unfair to banks • Hinders diversification
Separation of Banking and Securities Industries: Glass-Steagall • Will Separation Continue? • Fed, OCC, FDIC are allowing banks to engage in underwriting activities • Separation in Other Countries • Universal banking: Germany • British-style universal banking • U.S./Japan separation
International Banking • Why Rapid Growth • Rapid growth of international trade • Banks abroad can pursue activities not allowed in home country • Tap into Eurodollar market • U.S. Banks Overseas • Regulators • Federal Reserve (Regulation K) • Structure • Edge Act Corporations • International Banking Facilities
International Banking • Foreign Banks in U.S. • Regulators • Same as for U.S. domestic banks • Structure • 500 offices in U.S. • 20% of total U.S. bank assets
Financial Innovation and Decline in Traditional Banking • Innovations Increasing Competition • Money market mutual funds • Avoids deposit rate ceilings and reserve requirements • Junk bonds • Result of better info in credit markets • Commercial paper market • Result of better info in credit markets and rise in money market mutual funds • Securitization • Result of better info in credit markets and computer technology
The Decline in Banks as a Source of Finance Figure 16-3:bank Share of Total Nonfinancial Borrowing, 1960–2001
Bank Profitability Figure 16-4:Commercial Bank Profitability, 1970–2001
Share of Noninterest Income Figure 16-1:Share of Noninterest Income in Total Bank Income, 1960–2001
Decline in Traditional Banking • Loss of Cost Advantages in Acquiring Funds (Liabilities) • πi then disintermediation because • Deposit rate ceilings and regulation Q • Money market mutual funds • Foreign banks have cheaper source of funds: Japanese banks can tap large savings pool
Decline in Traditional Banking • Loss of Income Advantages on Uses of Funds (Assets) • Easier to use securities markets to raise funds: commercial paper, junk bonds, securitization • Finance companies more important because easier for them to raise funds
Banks' Response • Loss of cost advantages in raising funds and income advantages in making loans causes reduction in profitability in traditional banking • Expand lending into riskier areas (e.g., real estate) • Expand into off-balance sheet activities • Creates problems for U.S. regulatory system • Similar problems for banking industry in other countries