TOP OF THE AGENDA This week’s special edition of BPInsights revisits some of the content published during the first half of 2019 and identifies the “5 Most-Read Articles of Early… Continue Reading
August 16
August 14
A Primer on Bank Liquidity
WHAT IS BANK LIQUIDITY? The term “liquidity” has two related but distinct meanings in finance. An asset is liquid if it can be bought or sold quickly in size without… Continue Reading
August 13
Design Challenges for a Standing Repo Facility
At its June meeting, the FOMC discussed opening a standing repo facility. Such a facility would allow eligible counterparties to receive cash loans from the Federal Reserve in the form… Continue Reading
August 9
August 9, 2019
TOP OF THE AGENDA With Congress in recess and summer in full swing, our banking aficionados took a break from BPInsights to bring you a curated list of beach reads, geek… Continue Reading
August 9
Weekly Research Rundown – August 09, 2019
The Effects of the Volcker Rule on Corporate Bond Trading: Evidence from the Underwriting Exemption The Volcker Rule, part of the Dodd-Frank Act passed in response to the financial crisis,… Continue Reading
August 7
A Primer on Bank Capital
Capital is the amount by which a firm’s assets (the financial, physical, or intellectual assets it owns) exceed its liabilities (the amount it owes to creditors). Suppose a baker invests… Continue Reading
August 6
Fed Undercuts Own $6 Billion Effort to Reduce Sweep Accounts
When you make a deposit at a bank, the bank is required by the Fed to hold 10 percent of that deposit as cash. Confusingly, the Fed does not allow… Continue Reading
August 2
BPI, FSF Comment on FSB Solvent Wind-Down and Resolution Disclosure Consultations
On August 2, BPI and the Financial Services Forum submitted comment letters to the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on discussion papers regarding i) the solvent wind-down of derivatives and trading… Continue Reading
August 2
August 2, 2019
TOP OF THE AGENDA RTP Continues To Drive the Agenda In the American Banker this week, Christopher Richards, the Chief Banking Services Officer at Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank,… Continue Reading
August 2
Weekly Research Rundown – August 02, 2019
Behind the scenes of the beauty contest: window dressing and the G-SIB framework The additional capital requirements imposed on Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) by the post-crisis financial regulatory framework… Continue Reading