Financial system regulation and policies

• March 14, 2019

  The Age of Leverage

  Remarks Carolyn A. Wilkins UBC Vancouver School of Economics and CFA Society Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia

  Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins discusses how high leverage is both a headwind to global growth and a vulnerability in the global financial system.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Topic(s): Balance of payments and components, Credit risk management, Financial institutions, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Fiscal policy

• Macroprudential Policy with Capital Buffers

  Staff Working Paper 2019-8 Josef Schroth

  The countercyclical capital buffer is part of Basel III, the set of regulatory measures developed in response to the financial crisis of 2007–09. This study focuses on how time-varying capital buffers can address inefficiencies in economies with endogenous financial crises.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Credit and credit aggregates, Credit risk management, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Lender of last resort JEL Code(s): E, E1, E13, E3, E32, E4, E44

• Macroprudential FX Regulations: Shifting the Snowbanks of FX Vulnerability?

  Staff Working Paper 2018-55 Toni Ahnert, Kristin Forbes, Christian Friedrich, Dennis Reinhardt

  Can macroprudential foreign exchange (FX) regulations on banks reduce the financial and macroeconomic vulnerabilities created by borrowing in foreign currency? To evaluate the effectiveness and unintended consequences of macroprudential FX regulations, we develop a parsimonious model of bank and market lending in domestic and foreign currency and derive four predictions.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, Financial institutions, Financial system regulation and policies, International financial markets JEL Code(s): F, F3, F32, F34, G, G1, G15, G2, G21, G28

• Calibrating the Magnitude of the Countercyclical Capital Buffer Using Market-Based Stress Tests

  Staff Working Paper 2018-54 Maarten van Oordt

  How much capital do banks need as a buffer to absorb severe shocks? By using historical stock market data, market-based stress tests help estimate the magnitude of capital buffers necessary to absorb severe but plausible shocks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G1, G10, G2, G21, G28
• October 16, 2018

  Keeping the financial system healthy

  

  Joshua Slive, Donald Coletti

  We are all better off if the financial system can weather a storm or two. And every one of us plays a role in keeping it that way.

  Content Type(s): Publications, The Economy, Plain and Simple Topic(s): Credit risk management, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, International topics, Sectoral balance sheet

• Should Bank Capital Regulation Be Risk Sensitive?

  Staff Working Paper 2018-48 Toni Ahnert, James Chapman, Carolyn A. Wilkins

  We present a simple model to study the risk sensitivity of capital regulation. A banker funds investment with uninsured deposits and costly capital, where capital resolves a moral hazard problem in the banker’s choice of risk.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

• Prudential Liquidity Regulation in Banking—A Literature Review

  Staff Discussion Paper 2018-8 Adi Mordel

  Prudential liquidity requirements are a relatively recent regulatory tool on the international front, introduced as part of the Basel III accord in the form of a liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) and a net stable funding ratio (NSFR). I first discuss the rationale for regulating bank liquidity by highlighting the market failures that it addresses while reviewing key theoretical contributions to the literature on the motivation for prudential liquidity regulation.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

• The Characteristics of Uninsured Mortgages and their Securitization Potential

  Staff Analytical Note 2018-24 Adi Mordel, Maria teNyenhuis

  Following changes to housing finance policies that target insured mortgages, uninsured mortgage credit has been growing. This robust growth creates a larger pool of mortgages that may be suitable for private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial system regulation and policies, Wholesale funding JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28
• June 18, 2018

  Rebooting Reference Rates

  Remarks Lynn Patterson Investment Industry Association of Canada and Institute of International Finance Toronto, Ontario

  Deputy Governor Lynn Patterson discusses the efforts in multiple jurisdictions to strengthen LIBOR and similar benchmarks and work underway in Canada to consider a new risk-free benchmark for the Canadian dollar market.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial system regulation and policies, Market structure and pricing

• A Primer on the Canadian Bankers’ Acceptance Market

  Staff Discussion Paper 2018-6 Kaetlynd McRae, Danny Auger

  This paper discusses how the bankers’ acceptance (BA) market in Canada is organized and its essential link to the Canadian Dollar Offered Rate (CDOR). Globally, BAs are a niche product used only in a limited number of jurisdictions.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial system regulation and policies, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): G, G1, G18, G2, G21, G23