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Do large and small banks need different prudential rules?

BankUnderground

Do prudential regulations that work well for big banks work as well for small ones? We do so using ‘receiver operating characteristic’ – or ‘ROC’ – analysis of simple threshold rules. This provides evidence that an efficient set of regulations for large banks might not be as efficient for small ones. One size fits all?

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Chinese Officials Join US Politicians In Suddenly Falling Out Of Love With Big Tech 

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Published reports indicate that China’s central bank and banking, securities and foreign-exchange regulators summoned Ant Group executives this past weekend to discuss official concerns about the firm. subprime mortgage industry’s collapse and the 2007-08 Great Recession. Reuters quoted central bank Vice Gov. A Growing Crackdown .

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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The year is 2007. Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. And what was the product? No, not the iPhone, but that would be a good guess.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

In 2013 there were 246 bank and thrift merger and acquisition deals announced, the highest number since 2007 when there were 318 deals. This all comes with fewer banks than there were in 2007. Read: We need to be bigger and have more capital to keep up with regulation and the industry. What is driving deal volume?

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Back to the Future IV: challenges for financial stability policy in the next decade

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Since 2007, macroprudential policymakers have grappled with a broad set of vulnerabilities. While regulators cannot be sure what risks the next decade will feature, they can be sure that the set of issues will continuously evolve. Regulating an internationally interconnected system.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

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An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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A fistful of dollars: transmission of global funding shocks to emerging markets

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Positive liquidity shocks – that is, a loosening of global funding market conditions – have led to exchange rate appreciations, reductions in long-term bond yields, stock market booms, and increased gross capital flows to EMs ( Bhattarai et al (2018) ). The dashed red lines are 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals.