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Financial Stability:
Should we trust in central bank superheros?
Fonds C. Leblanc Seminar
Laval University
April 10, 2015
by
Paul Kupiec*
Resident Scholar, the American Enterprise Institute
* The views in this presentation are those of the author alone. They do not represent the opinions of the American
Enterprise Institute. Special thanks to Brian Marein for graphic art support. Email: paul.kupiec@aei.org
What is Financial Stability? Systemic Risk?
• Both are vague terms
• Is Financial Stability the absence of a financial crisis?
• What is Systemic Risk?
• Politicians have given regulators a vague mandate to
“prevent financial instability and control systemic risk”…
• But what must be stopped?
• What should be stopped?
• At what cost?
The quest for financial stability
Vague Concepts Vague Policies
• Politicians have anointed central bankers and
financial regulators as the new central planners…
• In the post crisis world, central bankers and financial
regulators are controlling the financial intermediation
process—the process that translates consumer savings
into investment--- under the guise of ensuring financial
stability
Vague mandates with little
oversight lead to bad
outcomes
Post crisis financial reforms & investment…
• The financial system channels the economy’s savings into productive
investment activities
• Good investments Strong economic growth
• Poor investments Poor economic growth
• In the US, banks, public securities markets and “shadow banks”
collect savings and allocate it to household, corporate, non-
incorporated business and foreign investments.
• Post crisis financial reforms have given regulators enormous
discretion to influence the allocation of savings into investment.
What financial activities should be regulated
to ensure Financial Stability?
• Banks?
• Insurance?
• Asset Management Industry?
• “Shadow Banks”?
• Ask the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and the answer is simply YES!
(a) Yes, we are in charge
(b) Yes, trust us
(c) Yes, we need to regulate ALL of the above
Emphasis on Global Regulatory
Agreements
• G-20 “deputized” the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to
“coordinate regulation” to prevent financial instability
• FSB has crafted international agreements on regulatory
standards and supervisory practices
• FSB “peer reviews” will assess compliance new FSB rules
• Brand New (March 2015) FSB peer review handbook just out!
• Is this a good idea?
• Are there potential dangers to internationally coordinated
financial stability rules?
• Do you believe central bankers and regulators have Superhero
Powers?
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
as SUPERHERO
Global Regulatory “Group Think” Creates Global Problems
• Basel II
• 2006--National bank regulators agreed to recalibrate bank minimum capital
regulations to require less capital than the prior Basel Accord fixed weights.
• Regulators’ “talking point” was that Basel II capital coverage was more efficient because
the Basel II capital requirements were properly risk sensitive, while the old rules were not
• Banks could operate safely under Basel II internal models approach with reduced capital levels
• 2008---Ooops!
• Basel capital requirements were too low!
• A major catalyst for the crisis
• Basel Market Risk Amendment (1997) was the biggest catalyst
• Basel II just allowed banks to further reduce their capital
• Regulators’ Solution? We need more regulation!
Basel III: New Global Bank Standards
• Completely revised the Market Risk Amendment
• higher capital (stress VaR, credit default risk)
• Revised Basel II securitization rules
• Added new liquidity requirements
• Liquidity Coverage Ratio, Net Stable Funding Ratio
• Added new “macroprudential features”
• Systemic risk capital surcharges for large institutions
• Macroprudential cycle-dependent capital buffer
“Thor”, a.k.a, Stefan Ingves, Head of the Basel Committee on
Banking Supervision and Governor of the Bank of Sweden
uses his hammer to depress excess financial market
speculation…
Crisis showed banks lacked adequate liquidity
• LCR—simulates a 30-day funding stress period—a bank “run”
• Bank must estimate
• How much of their short term funding will run
• Estimate cutomer draws on committed lines of credit
• Regulators “help” banks by imposing minimum quantitative standards
• Banks estimate amount of short-term funds that run within 30-days
• Banks must hold equal amount of “high quality liquid assets” (HQLA)
• Basically central bank reserves & liquid government and government-backed bonds
• Bank vault cash does not count as HQLA for banks!
Goals of LCR:
Enhance
banks’
liquidity to
limit the need
for central
bank rescuesAlan Greenspan, a.k.a. “The Maestro,” former Chairman of the Federal
Reserve, in action, saving Wall Street…
But the LCR is pushing liquidity out of banks!
• Banks are beginning to charge large financial institutions for deposits
• JP Morgan Chase to charge customers between 3.5 and 5.5 percent interest
• Many banks already charge large negative rates on Euro deposits
• Global bank regulators never envisioned 0 or negative interest rates
when they wrote LCR rule
• LCR assumes 100% of large financial institution deposits run
• Banks must hold matching amount of HQLA that pays 0 or negative rates
• Banks must have capital to back deposits as well
• In US, banks must also pay deposit insurance premia on these deposits
• It makes no sense for banks to accept deposits when costs them $$.
• LCR is Backfiring…banks are intentionally pushing out liquid deposits.
“Wolverine,” a.k.a. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spent the better part
of 6 years trying to inject dollar liquidity to save the world’s banks…..and now these
same banks are trying to push liquid deposits out the door....
“Obi-Wan,” a.k.a. European Central Bank Chairman Mario Draghi, may have to
follow through on his pledge to do “whatever it takes”, and use his light sabre to
force banks to retain liquidity & buy Euro HQLA bonds at negative yields to
defend the Euro…
New US Bank Regulation Since the Crisis: The Dodd-Frank Act
• New higher regulatory capital and liquidity requirements
• Basel III
• Board of Governors annual stress test
• New “macroprudential” powers for the Fed
• Proposed total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC) rules
• New FDIC resolution powers for nonbank SIFIs, including
Bank Holding Companies (BHCs)
• New Federal Reserve powers over the insurance industry
• New annual “living will” requirements
• More than $184 billion in government fines… and counting
“…It was these two guys who wrote the law.”
Newest rules vs discretion debate: Macroprudential bank regulation
• Simplest form---Basle III cycle dependent regulatory
capital buffer
• Other Dodd-Frank macroprudential tools
• Fed stress test
• Targeted guidance
• New leveraged loan “guidance”
• New auto lending “guidance”
• On the Fed drawing board/wish list
• Gov Tarullo’s vision for “proper bank governance”
• BHC minimum debt issuance requirements
• Universal Fed control over “haircuts”…
• Extend Fed prudential powers to asset managers, insurers
“Spiderman,” a.k.a. Federal Reserve
Governor Tarullo considers the
macroprudential tools available to
regulate the financial system
Dodd-Frank Stress Test
• All BHCs > $50 billion must undergo and
annual stress test administered by the
Federal Reserve Board
• Must have 3 macro scenarios
• Baseline
• Adverse
• Severely Adverse
• Fed Board of Governors must
approve/disapprove of bank capitalization plans
based on stress test results for a three year
horizon.
• Fed must publish a summary of findings
Federal Reserve Governor Tarullo describes the
size of the Board of Governors loss estimate
for the severely adverse CCAR stress test
scenario…
The Fed’s Stress Test
Adverse Scenario 1 Adverse Scenario 2 Extremely Adverse Scenario
Stress tests provide Fed with huge discretion to control large BHC operations
• Stress tests results are an exercise in art & subjective judgment, not science
• Scenarios to be tested are set by Fed & determine if banks pass or fail
• Will the scenarios and test results anticipate the next crisis?
• Stress scenarios must anticipate the next crisis or are a waste of resources
• Models have only weak links between Bank P&Ls and stress scenario macro variables
• Models explain relatively little of the variation in bank P&L
• Fit is even worse under crisis conditions
The 2015 Fed Stress Test Scenarios
“The severely adverse scenario
features a substantial weakening in
global economic activity,
... the U.S. corporate sector
experiences increases in financial
distress that are even larger than
would be expected in a severe
recession, together with a widening
in corporate bond spreads and a
decline in equity prices.
The scenario also includes a rise in oil
prices (Brent crude) to approximately
$110 per barrel.”
Wrong Scenario!
The Risk is in the Fed’s Stress Scenario
The real risk is stress scenario design….
Banks should have been worried about an oil price decline into the low $40s….
NOT an oil price increase.
Will my bank pass DFAST? Will my BHC pass CCAR?
• Pass/Fail ?― oNLY the FED Knows!
• No scientific way to decide pass/fail
• Bank has no defense!
• Fed can easily criticize bank models
• None of the these models fit the data very well
• What is the right model? What is the Fed model?
• Is the Fed model the right model?
• No answer to these questions
• Fed can criticize bank qualitative procedures and governance
• How much time and money should senior management spend modeling a hypothetical Fed
scenario with oil going to $110 when oil prices are dropping and management needs to focus
on making profitable loans in the real economic environment?
• Bankers must pay enough attention to pass CCAR, otherwise Fed will find new regulatory
priorities to fill management time…
In Act II of Fed Kabuki theater, banker tries unsuccessfully to
defend his stress test model estimates against attacks by
Federal Reserve Board stress test examiners.
New Federal Reserve Powers of Insurance
• Dodd-Frank gives Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) power
to designate nonbank financial firms for enhanced Federal Reserve
supervision and regulation
• SIFI designation has been very controversial…
• Three large insurance companies have been designated by the FSOC
• American International Group (AIG)
• Prudential Insurance
• Metlife
• These firms are now subject to “enhanced supervision” by the Fed
• Annual stress tests
• Living wills
• Higher capital requirements and new TLAC rules
New Federal Reserve Insurance Powers
• FSOC designations have been controversial
• FSOC explanation for insurer designation assumes policyholders will act like
bank depositors and run….but insurance does not work that way.
• Insurance representative on the FSOC was opposed to FSOC designation!
• Insurers were designated by the FSB before the FSOC deliberated
• Was the outcome cooked from the start?
• Widespread belief that Treasury and the Fed designated SIFIs before any FSOC analysis
• Fed has not proposed any specific enhanced capital standards for SIFI insurers
• Treated like banks using Basel SIFI surcharges?
• How does designation help when there are no enhanced regulations in place?
• How do firms become “undesignated” once they are designated by the FSOC?
Federal Reserve as national insurance regulator?
• In the US, insurance industry is regulated by the states
• In legislating Dodd-Frank, Congress considered creating a national
insurance regulator, but decided not to do so…
• Created a national insurance office in the U.S. Treasury
• Not a regulator
• Gathers information
• Coordinates insurance among state regulators
• Dodd-Frank also transferred Office of Thrift Supervision holding
company powers to the Fed and gave the Fed the power to examine
insurance affiliates of bank/thrift holding companies
But the Fed is now becoming the National Insurance Regulator
• Prior to Dodd-Frank, only state insurance examiners examined
insurance companies
• Now, the Fed can examine insurance companies that are affiliated
with banks and thrifts
• …and the Fed is examining with enthusiasm
• sending in lots of new insurance examiners into insurance companies
• the insurance industry claims the Fed is learning the insurance business at their expense
• Fed is now imposing Bank Capital Standards on insurance firms using Fed holding
company powers
• In addition, the Fed now regulates three of the largest insurance firms
that the FSOC designated SIFIs
Fed is designing insurance industry capital regs in the FSB
• The Fed joined the International Association of Insurance Supervisors
(IAIS)
• Fed is key US representative on IAIS groups designing global capital standards
for internationally active insurers
• Industry is worried that IAIS will endorse a Basel-like capital standard similar
to European Solvency II rules
• Over time, past behavior suggests that the Fed will impose whatever new IAIS
international capital standard it develops on all US insurers
• Overall, the Fed is positioning itself to behave as the national
insurance regular that the U.S. Congress explicitly declined to create!
Macroprudential Regulation
• Macroprudential powers grant an open-
ended remit with few if any built-in checks
& balances
• Few specific rules or limits in law
• Gives central bank enormous discretion
• More instruments & powers with only a
vague goal: financial stability Unknown Federal Reserve official testing new
macroeconomic powers
Macroprudential becomes a tool of monetary policy
• Increasingly, the Fed is supporting its sustained 0-interest rate policy by
using its new Dodd-Frank enhanced supervisory powers.
• To prevent 0 rates from inflating financial bubbles, the Fed now tells banks which
type of investments are “sound” and which are “too risky”.
• The Fed calls this “macroprudential policy”, but it is very close to central planning.
• The Fed thinks it can keep the monetary accelerator to the floor if it is
allowed to control the investments banks make…
• Senior Fed officials have publically said that they need to extend this control to
“shadow banks” … which is really Fed speak for the rest of the financial sector.
• The Fed has been exerting pressure to discourage certain types of lending
• …approving which investments banks should make and which they must avoid, and it
wants to extend this power to non-bank financial institutions.
Regulators use new powers to try to stop leveraged loans
• Regulators issued new regulatory guidelines in 2013.
• New limits on debt-service coverage ratios
• Includes discretion to prohibit loans even if they pose no immediate
risk to the originating bank
• Regulators can prohibit “poorly underwritten” loans that may
become a risk to the ultimate investors
• Used to be investors decided what was too risky….not anymore!
• Fed can prohibit loans that create “systemic risk” for the financial system
• Bank regulators have been using these new rules to limit new
leveraged loans that they think are fueling a bubble in high-yield
mutual funds.
Why Leveraged loans?
• Leverage loans are borrowings by sub-investment grade companies
• Loans are floating rate
• Offer a healthy yield spread over libor or other short-term reference rate
• In Fed ZERO rate environment, investors are starved for yield
• An investor would be crazy to take long term interest rate risk
because long rates are bound to rise at some point
• Best bet—high yield floating rate paper….a.k.a. leveraged loans
• Fed does not like them because banks sell them to high yield “stable
value” mutual funds…
Regulators try to short-circuit leveraged loan market
2015 Stress Test focus on leveraged loans…
“Storm,” a.k.a. Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, using her
powers to short-circuit the leverage loan market…
Leveraged Lending Involves
“Shadow Banking”
But what is Shadow Banking?
Various Definitions for Shadow Banking
• Financial Stability Board
• Credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular
banking system”
• Foreign exchange and equity transactions expressly excluded
• FSB has an extended “catch all” definition
• “…the capacity for (some) non-bank entities and transactions to operate on a large scale in ways
that create bank-like risks to financial stability (long-term credit extension based on short- term
funding and leverage). Such risk creation may take place at an entity level but it can also form
part of a complex chain of transactions, in which leverage and maturity transformation occur in
stages, and in ways that create multiple forms of feedback into the regular banking system.”
Bernanke on shadow banking…April 2012 speech
• “As an illustration of shadow banking at work, consider how an automobile
loan can be made and funded outside of the banking system.
• The loan could be originated by a finance company that pools it with other loans in a
securitization vehicle.
• An investment bank might sell tranches of the securitization to investors.
• The lower-risk tranches could be purchased by an asset-backed commercial paper
(ABCP) conduit that, in turn, funds itself by issuing commercial paper that is purchased
by money market funds.
• Alternatively, the lower-risk tranches of loan securitizations might be purchased by
securities dealers that fund the positions through collateralized borrowing using
repurchase (repo) agreements, with money market funds and institutional investors
serving as lenders.”
• This description is good example of regulator fear mongering. It is intended
to sound complex and scary,… but these are just examples of normal
financial transactions that have been done by banks, and by nonbank
financial firms….
Bernanke’s evolving definition (2013 speech)
• “Shadow banking comprises various markets and institutions that provide financial
intermediation outside the traditional, regulated banking system. Shadow banking
includes vehicles for credit intermediation, maturity transformation, liquidity provision,
and risk sharing. Such vehicles are typically funded on a largely short-term basis from
wholesale sources.”
• Officials claim these can create systemic risk because:
• No deposit insurance
• Shadow banking relies on collateral and contractual obligations
• No lender of last resort
• Contractual back-up support
• Contracts & collateral without government involvement….Oh my!
• A progressive’s nightmare
• Sounds like the sound workings of a private market to me…
Global size of shadow banking
Estimates from FSB Shadow Bank Monitoring Report November 2013
“A report written by regulators to stir alarm…”
From FT Alphaville, “The Tale of Shadow Banks,” Tracy Alloway July 13, 2010.
◦ Total shadow banking assets $71.2 trillion at year-end 2012.
◦ Includes all assets other than banks, insurance companies,
pension funds, public financial institutions, central banks or
“financial auxiliaries.”
◦ US has an estimated $26 trillion in shadow bank sector
FSB wants to scare us big numbers…
Using a subsample of countries with better quality data, the FSB finds that when it accounts for the fact
that some “shadow banking activities” take place in a regulated entity, the size of the shadow banking
sector falls from $55 trillion to $35 trillion
Among FSB respondents, US has the largest shadow banking sector and it is growing…
High Quality Credit + Maturity & Liquidity Transformation
= $$Money$$
• When borrowers are able to sell long-term interest paying debt and
investors have confidence that payments will be made at maturity
regardless of who owns the paper…
• The debt can be traded among investors, held short-term, and
function as “money”
• A store of value that is easily converted into a medium of exchange
• Also called “inside money”
• It is created by the private sector without government involvement
Inside money is created because it is useful!
• The private sector demands inside money because it is a better
mechanism for storing value compared government created money
(outside money).
• Inside money pays slightly higher interest rate than outside money
• Can be created by private markets when needed
• Comes with fewer government rules and regulations that sap yield
• Used widely for eons by banks and nonbanks alike
• If a systemic event destroys the demand for inside money, the event
can cause distress in both the shadow & regulated banking systems…
• Central banks have to scramble to replace inside money with central bank money to
prevent economic activity from collapsing….remember the Fisher equation: M*V=P*Q ?
• Have you seen this movie before?
Shadow banking are the processes & institutions that create
inside money*
• Money==assets that trade on par or nearly par on demand
• Publicly issued assets = outside money
• Cash, Federal Reserve balances, T-Bills and short-term T-notes
• Claims that are or can be turned into legal tender very quickly at near par value
• Four types of institutions issue money claims
• Central banks issue outside money
• Banks issue deposits that are backed by public safety nets issue outside money
• Dealer Banks issue overnight repos (inside money)
• Money Market Mutual Funds (MMMFs) issue redeemable shares (inside money)
• Banks issue uninsured deposits (inside money)
• Repos and MMMF shares must be turned into demand deposits or reserves
before they can be used to settle transactions
* See for example Pozsar, “Shadow Banking: The Money View,” Office of Financial Research Working Paper July 2014.
Near-money claims
• Money market instruments and negotiable CDs with maturities longer
than a day, but still very short term, can be converted into outside
money at values very near to par
• But not all money-like claims are equal
• MMMFs, non-government repos, and securities lending operations are the
riskiest money-like claims
• The guarantee mechanism baking repos and securities lending transactions
depends on the reputations (creditworthiness and liquidity) of the issuer
• A repo failures leaves lender with collateral that they must liquidate
From Pozar, Shadow Banking:The Money View,
OFR Working Paper 14-04
Shadow Banking = $5.5 trillion
Using “inside money” measure, US
Not $26 trillion as
estimated by FSB!
Regulators Identify Financial Stability Issues &
Shadow Banking
• Short-term deposit like funding can lead to “runs”
• Collateral-based lending can lead to excessive leverage, especially in
“bubbles”
• Shadow banking problems spill over to regulated banking system
• Shadow banking is a rational market response to leverage constraints
and other “safeguards” imposed on the regulated banking sector
Regulators: Shadow Banking “Risk Factors”
• Activities that involve any of the following may be a source of
“systemic risk”
• Maturity transformation
• Liquidity transformation
• Imperfect credit risk transfer
• Leverage
• Secondary issues that may indicate “latent systemic risk”
• Importance of regulatory arbitrage
• Interconnectedness to banking
• Size of activity
• High “risk-adjusted” performance relative to history
Proposed Regulations for “Shadow Banks”
• Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer has
offered his views in a series of recent speeches:
• In Frankfurt, Germany March 27, 2015
• At the Atlanta Fed Conference, March 30, 2015
Vice Chairman Fischer’s “lessons” from the crisis (March 30, 2015)
• “The financial crisis manifested itself in the nonbank sector and was
worse for the nonbank sector than for banks”
• “Nonbank distress can harm the real economy”
• “Many of the problems at nonbanks were similar to the problems
that plagued banks”
• “FDIC can resolve banks while maintaining their functions; FED can
provide liquidity to banks; bank supervisory agencies can instill
confidence in banks using “stress tests”….”
• “But regulators could do none of these for non banks”
• “Nonbank distress can be transmitted to banks…”
Vice Chairman Fischer’s Stability “Prescriptions”
• “…we will not go far wrong if we begin by considering how to promote
solvency and liquidity …of nonbanks.”
• “One way to mitigate such (liquidity) problems is by having direct
restrictions on the structure of (nonbank) liabilities…or requiring some
nonbanks to maintain buffers of highly liquid assets…”
• “restricting liquidity mismatch between (nonbank) assets and liabilities
[open end mutual funds]”
• “to promote solvency, one could impose ratio-type capital
requirements…..(or) require that firms perform regular stress tests to
demonstrate they can remain solvent and continue to lend even under
stress.”
• “imposing restrictions on (nonbank) structure or activities in ways that
reduce the likelihood of runs.”
• “impose margin requirements for securities financing transactions..”
To protect the
financial system,
Vice Chairman
Fischer thinks
“shadow banks”
require bank-like
regulations…
“Superman,” a.k.a. Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman
Stanley Fischer, the former Vice Chairman of CITI group,
suits up to protect us against “Shadow Banks”…
The Real Risk of
Macroprudential
Regulation:
What if central bankers
and financial regulators
do not have Superhero
powers?
“Iron Man,” a.k.a. Governor Mark Carney, Head of the Bank of England,
former Governor of the Bank of Canada, and current Chairman of the
Financial Stability Board, in action fighting off banker efforts to moderate
FSB regulatory policy proposals.
The Fable of Dr. No…
• Dr. No, a real academic in economics and finance (not
his real name)―widely regarded as brilliant―uses the
most up-to-date advanced approaches to manage
investment portfolios using all asset classes,
derivatives and trading methodologies…
The central bank hired Dr. No, to manage
macroprudential regulation,…
Dr, No and his team directed how the economy’s
savings was invested, making sure to preserve
financial stability….
In other words, Dr. No and his team used
macroprudential regulation to control the economy’s
investment flows…
Did everyone live happily ever-after?
• Dr. No managed to create a macroprudential investment strategy that
literally did not make money in any environment…
• An extraordinary accomplishment….but not a good one.
• Since its inception in August of 200X –Dr. No’s strategy lost money
during almost every quarter.
• It’s had something like a negative 7% compound annual return…
• Not sure how this compares to historical returns earned by Soviet central
planners….
Dr. No’s Investment Strategy Performance
• Dr. No’s strategy lost money
• in a bad market (2011, negative 2.75%)
• in a good market (2012, return was negative 7.69%)
• and a raging bull market (2013, in which it lost another 8%).
• It earned 8% in 2010 with the S&P was up 15%.
Moral of the Story:
Who do you trust with your future?
• Yourself and millions of other individual investors
who decide which risks the economy will take by
choosing how to invest savings?
• Or a few “superhero” central bankers?
• …even the best & brightest can stumble
• Dr. No is real—the best-of-the-best--like the Fed economists
who will determine Macroprudential Policy
• Other similar episodes…remember LTCM and its Nobel prize
winners?
• Macroprudential regulation puts the central
bank in charge of controlling the economy’s
investments
—the central banker becomes the central planner
Moral of the Story:
Who do you trust with your future?
• Yourself and millions of other individual investors
who decide which risks the economy will take by
choosing how to invest savings?
• Or a few “superhero” central bankers?
• …even the best and the brightest can stumble
• Dr. No is real--an academic economist—the best-of-the-
best--like the Fed economists who will determine
Macroprudential Policy
• Other similar episodes…remember LTCM?
• Macroprudential regulation puts the central
bank in charge of controlling the entire
economy’s investments—the central bank
becomes the central planner
Central bankers want to control the economy using
macroprudental regulation to allocate savings.
Which outcome will we get?
Thank You

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  • 1. Financial Stability: Should we trust in central bank superheros? Fonds C. Leblanc Seminar Laval University April 10, 2015 by Paul Kupiec* Resident Scholar, the American Enterprise Institute * The views in this presentation are those of the author alone. They do not represent the opinions of the American Enterprise Institute. Special thanks to Brian Marein for graphic art support. Email: paul.kupiec@aei.org
  • 2. What is Financial Stability? Systemic Risk? • Both are vague terms • Is Financial Stability the absence of a financial crisis? • What is Systemic Risk? • Politicians have given regulators a vague mandate to “prevent financial instability and control systemic risk”… • But what must be stopped? • What should be stopped? • At what cost? The quest for financial stability
  • 3. Vague Concepts Vague Policies • Politicians have anointed central bankers and financial regulators as the new central planners… • In the post crisis world, central bankers and financial regulators are controlling the financial intermediation process—the process that translates consumer savings into investment--- under the guise of ensuring financial stability Vague mandates with little oversight lead to bad outcomes
  • 4. Post crisis financial reforms & investment… • The financial system channels the economy’s savings into productive investment activities • Good investments Strong economic growth • Poor investments Poor economic growth • In the US, banks, public securities markets and “shadow banks” collect savings and allocate it to household, corporate, non- incorporated business and foreign investments. • Post crisis financial reforms have given regulators enormous discretion to influence the allocation of savings into investment.
  • 5. What financial activities should be regulated to ensure Financial Stability? • Banks? • Insurance? • Asset Management Industry? • “Shadow Banks”? • Ask the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and the answer is simply YES! (a) Yes, we are in charge (b) Yes, trust us (c) Yes, we need to regulate ALL of the above
  • 6. Emphasis on Global Regulatory Agreements • G-20 “deputized” the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to “coordinate regulation” to prevent financial instability • FSB has crafted international agreements on regulatory standards and supervisory practices • FSB “peer reviews” will assess compliance new FSB rules • Brand New (March 2015) FSB peer review handbook just out! • Is this a good idea? • Are there potential dangers to internationally coordinated financial stability rules? • Do you believe central bankers and regulators have Superhero Powers? Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as SUPERHERO
  • 7. Global Regulatory “Group Think” Creates Global Problems • Basel II • 2006--National bank regulators agreed to recalibrate bank minimum capital regulations to require less capital than the prior Basel Accord fixed weights. • Regulators’ “talking point” was that Basel II capital coverage was more efficient because the Basel II capital requirements were properly risk sensitive, while the old rules were not • Banks could operate safely under Basel II internal models approach with reduced capital levels • 2008---Ooops! • Basel capital requirements were too low! • A major catalyst for the crisis • Basel Market Risk Amendment (1997) was the biggest catalyst • Basel II just allowed banks to further reduce their capital • Regulators’ Solution? We need more regulation!
  • 8. Basel III: New Global Bank Standards • Completely revised the Market Risk Amendment • higher capital (stress VaR, credit default risk) • Revised Basel II securitization rules • Added new liquidity requirements • Liquidity Coverage Ratio, Net Stable Funding Ratio • Added new “macroprudential features” • Systemic risk capital surcharges for large institutions • Macroprudential cycle-dependent capital buffer “Thor”, a.k.a, Stefan Ingves, Head of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and Governor of the Bank of Sweden uses his hammer to depress excess financial market speculation…
  • 9. Crisis showed banks lacked adequate liquidity • LCR—simulates a 30-day funding stress period—a bank “run” • Bank must estimate • How much of their short term funding will run • Estimate cutomer draws on committed lines of credit • Regulators “help” banks by imposing minimum quantitative standards • Banks estimate amount of short-term funds that run within 30-days • Banks must hold equal amount of “high quality liquid assets” (HQLA) • Basically central bank reserves & liquid government and government-backed bonds • Bank vault cash does not count as HQLA for banks!
  • 10. Goals of LCR: Enhance banks’ liquidity to limit the need for central bank rescuesAlan Greenspan, a.k.a. “The Maestro,” former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in action, saving Wall Street…
  • 11. But the LCR is pushing liquidity out of banks! • Banks are beginning to charge large financial institutions for deposits • JP Morgan Chase to charge customers between 3.5 and 5.5 percent interest • Many banks already charge large negative rates on Euro deposits • Global bank regulators never envisioned 0 or negative interest rates when they wrote LCR rule • LCR assumes 100% of large financial institution deposits run • Banks must hold matching amount of HQLA that pays 0 or negative rates • Banks must have capital to back deposits as well • In US, banks must also pay deposit insurance premia on these deposits • It makes no sense for banks to accept deposits when costs them $$. • LCR is Backfiring…banks are intentionally pushing out liquid deposits.
  • 12. “Wolverine,” a.k.a. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spent the better part of 6 years trying to inject dollar liquidity to save the world’s banks…..and now these same banks are trying to push liquid deposits out the door....
  • 13. “Obi-Wan,” a.k.a. European Central Bank Chairman Mario Draghi, may have to follow through on his pledge to do “whatever it takes”, and use his light sabre to force banks to retain liquidity & buy Euro HQLA bonds at negative yields to defend the Euro…
  • 14. New US Bank Regulation Since the Crisis: The Dodd-Frank Act • New higher regulatory capital and liquidity requirements • Basel III • Board of Governors annual stress test • New “macroprudential” powers for the Fed • Proposed total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC) rules • New FDIC resolution powers for nonbank SIFIs, including Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) • New Federal Reserve powers over the insurance industry • New annual “living will” requirements • More than $184 billion in government fines… and counting “…It was these two guys who wrote the law.”
  • 15. Newest rules vs discretion debate: Macroprudential bank regulation • Simplest form---Basle III cycle dependent regulatory capital buffer • Other Dodd-Frank macroprudential tools • Fed stress test • Targeted guidance • New leveraged loan “guidance” • New auto lending “guidance” • On the Fed drawing board/wish list • Gov Tarullo’s vision for “proper bank governance” • BHC minimum debt issuance requirements • Universal Fed control over “haircuts”… • Extend Fed prudential powers to asset managers, insurers “Spiderman,” a.k.a. Federal Reserve Governor Tarullo considers the macroprudential tools available to regulate the financial system
  • 16. Dodd-Frank Stress Test • All BHCs > $50 billion must undergo and annual stress test administered by the Federal Reserve Board • Must have 3 macro scenarios • Baseline • Adverse • Severely Adverse • Fed Board of Governors must approve/disapprove of bank capitalization plans based on stress test results for a three year horizon. • Fed must publish a summary of findings Federal Reserve Governor Tarullo describes the size of the Board of Governors loss estimate for the severely adverse CCAR stress test scenario…
  • 17. The Fed’s Stress Test Adverse Scenario 1 Adverse Scenario 2 Extremely Adverse Scenario Stress tests provide Fed with huge discretion to control large BHC operations • Stress tests results are an exercise in art & subjective judgment, not science • Scenarios to be tested are set by Fed & determine if banks pass or fail • Will the scenarios and test results anticipate the next crisis? • Stress scenarios must anticipate the next crisis or are a waste of resources • Models have only weak links between Bank P&Ls and stress scenario macro variables • Models explain relatively little of the variation in bank P&L • Fit is even worse under crisis conditions
  • 18. The 2015 Fed Stress Test Scenarios “The severely adverse scenario features a substantial weakening in global economic activity, ... the U.S. corporate sector experiences increases in financial distress that are even larger than would be expected in a severe recession, together with a widening in corporate bond spreads and a decline in equity prices. The scenario also includes a rise in oil prices (Brent crude) to approximately $110 per barrel.” Wrong Scenario! The Risk is in the Fed’s Stress Scenario
  • 19. The real risk is stress scenario design…. Banks should have been worried about an oil price decline into the low $40s…. NOT an oil price increase.
  • 20. Will my bank pass DFAST? Will my BHC pass CCAR? • Pass/Fail ?― oNLY the FED Knows! • No scientific way to decide pass/fail • Bank has no defense! • Fed can easily criticize bank models • None of the these models fit the data very well • What is the right model? What is the Fed model? • Is the Fed model the right model? • No answer to these questions • Fed can criticize bank qualitative procedures and governance • How much time and money should senior management spend modeling a hypothetical Fed scenario with oil going to $110 when oil prices are dropping and management needs to focus on making profitable loans in the real economic environment? • Bankers must pay enough attention to pass CCAR, otherwise Fed will find new regulatory priorities to fill management time… In Act II of Fed Kabuki theater, banker tries unsuccessfully to defend his stress test model estimates against attacks by Federal Reserve Board stress test examiners.
  • 21. New Federal Reserve Powers of Insurance • Dodd-Frank gives Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) power to designate nonbank financial firms for enhanced Federal Reserve supervision and regulation • SIFI designation has been very controversial… • Three large insurance companies have been designated by the FSOC • American International Group (AIG) • Prudential Insurance • Metlife • These firms are now subject to “enhanced supervision” by the Fed • Annual stress tests • Living wills • Higher capital requirements and new TLAC rules
  • 22. New Federal Reserve Insurance Powers • FSOC designations have been controversial • FSOC explanation for insurer designation assumes policyholders will act like bank depositors and run….but insurance does not work that way. • Insurance representative on the FSOC was opposed to FSOC designation! • Insurers were designated by the FSB before the FSOC deliberated • Was the outcome cooked from the start? • Widespread belief that Treasury and the Fed designated SIFIs before any FSOC analysis • Fed has not proposed any specific enhanced capital standards for SIFI insurers • Treated like banks using Basel SIFI surcharges? • How does designation help when there are no enhanced regulations in place? • How do firms become “undesignated” once they are designated by the FSOC?
  • 23. Federal Reserve as national insurance regulator? • In the US, insurance industry is regulated by the states • In legislating Dodd-Frank, Congress considered creating a national insurance regulator, but decided not to do so… • Created a national insurance office in the U.S. Treasury • Not a regulator • Gathers information • Coordinates insurance among state regulators • Dodd-Frank also transferred Office of Thrift Supervision holding company powers to the Fed and gave the Fed the power to examine insurance affiliates of bank/thrift holding companies
  • 24. But the Fed is now becoming the National Insurance Regulator • Prior to Dodd-Frank, only state insurance examiners examined insurance companies • Now, the Fed can examine insurance companies that are affiliated with banks and thrifts • …and the Fed is examining with enthusiasm • sending in lots of new insurance examiners into insurance companies • the insurance industry claims the Fed is learning the insurance business at their expense • Fed is now imposing Bank Capital Standards on insurance firms using Fed holding company powers • In addition, the Fed now regulates three of the largest insurance firms that the FSOC designated SIFIs
  • 25. Fed is designing insurance industry capital regs in the FSB • The Fed joined the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) • Fed is key US representative on IAIS groups designing global capital standards for internationally active insurers • Industry is worried that IAIS will endorse a Basel-like capital standard similar to European Solvency II rules • Over time, past behavior suggests that the Fed will impose whatever new IAIS international capital standard it develops on all US insurers • Overall, the Fed is positioning itself to behave as the national insurance regular that the U.S. Congress explicitly declined to create!
  • 26. Macroprudential Regulation • Macroprudential powers grant an open- ended remit with few if any built-in checks & balances • Few specific rules or limits in law • Gives central bank enormous discretion • More instruments & powers with only a vague goal: financial stability Unknown Federal Reserve official testing new macroeconomic powers
  • 27. Macroprudential becomes a tool of monetary policy • Increasingly, the Fed is supporting its sustained 0-interest rate policy by using its new Dodd-Frank enhanced supervisory powers. • To prevent 0 rates from inflating financial bubbles, the Fed now tells banks which type of investments are “sound” and which are “too risky”. • The Fed calls this “macroprudential policy”, but it is very close to central planning. • The Fed thinks it can keep the monetary accelerator to the floor if it is allowed to control the investments banks make… • Senior Fed officials have publically said that they need to extend this control to “shadow banks” … which is really Fed speak for the rest of the financial sector. • The Fed has been exerting pressure to discourage certain types of lending • …approving which investments banks should make and which they must avoid, and it wants to extend this power to non-bank financial institutions.
  • 28. Regulators use new powers to try to stop leveraged loans • Regulators issued new regulatory guidelines in 2013. • New limits on debt-service coverage ratios • Includes discretion to prohibit loans even if they pose no immediate risk to the originating bank • Regulators can prohibit “poorly underwritten” loans that may become a risk to the ultimate investors • Used to be investors decided what was too risky….not anymore! • Fed can prohibit loans that create “systemic risk” for the financial system • Bank regulators have been using these new rules to limit new leveraged loans that they think are fueling a bubble in high-yield mutual funds.
  • 29. Why Leveraged loans? • Leverage loans are borrowings by sub-investment grade companies • Loans are floating rate • Offer a healthy yield spread over libor or other short-term reference rate • In Fed ZERO rate environment, investors are starved for yield • An investor would be crazy to take long term interest rate risk because long rates are bound to rise at some point • Best bet—high yield floating rate paper….a.k.a. leveraged loans • Fed does not like them because banks sell them to high yield “stable value” mutual funds…
  • 30. Regulators try to short-circuit leveraged loan market 2015 Stress Test focus on leveraged loans… “Storm,” a.k.a. Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, using her powers to short-circuit the leverage loan market…
  • 32. But what is Shadow Banking?
  • 33. Various Definitions for Shadow Banking • Financial Stability Board • Credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular banking system” • Foreign exchange and equity transactions expressly excluded • FSB has an extended “catch all” definition • “…the capacity for (some) non-bank entities and transactions to operate on a large scale in ways that create bank-like risks to financial stability (long-term credit extension based on short- term funding and leverage). Such risk creation may take place at an entity level but it can also form part of a complex chain of transactions, in which leverage and maturity transformation occur in stages, and in ways that create multiple forms of feedback into the regular banking system.”
  • 34. Bernanke on shadow banking…April 2012 speech • “As an illustration of shadow banking at work, consider how an automobile loan can be made and funded outside of the banking system. • The loan could be originated by a finance company that pools it with other loans in a securitization vehicle. • An investment bank might sell tranches of the securitization to investors. • The lower-risk tranches could be purchased by an asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) conduit that, in turn, funds itself by issuing commercial paper that is purchased by money market funds. • Alternatively, the lower-risk tranches of loan securitizations might be purchased by securities dealers that fund the positions through collateralized borrowing using repurchase (repo) agreements, with money market funds and institutional investors serving as lenders.” • This description is good example of regulator fear mongering. It is intended to sound complex and scary,… but these are just examples of normal financial transactions that have been done by banks, and by nonbank financial firms….
  • 35. Bernanke’s evolving definition (2013 speech) • “Shadow banking comprises various markets and institutions that provide financial intermediation outside the traditional, regulated banking system. Shadow banking includes vehicles for credit intermediation, maturity transformation, liquidity provision, and risk sharing. Such vehicles are typically funded on a largely short-term basis from wholesale sources.” • Officials claim these can create systemic risk because: • No deposit insurance • Shadow banking relies on collateral and contractual obligations • No lender of last resort • Contractual back-up support • Contracts & collateral without government involvement….Oh my! • A progressive’s nightmare • Sounds like the sound workings of a private market to me…
  • 36. Global size of shadow banking Estimates from FSB Shadow Bank Monitoring Report November 2013 “A report written by regulators to stir alarm…”
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  • 38. From FT Alphaville, “The Tale of Shadow Banks,” Tracy Alloway July 13, 2010.
  • 39. ◦ Total shadow banking assets $71.2 trillion at year-end 2012. ◦ Includes all assets other than banks, insurance companies, pension funds, public financial institutions, central banks or “financial auxiliaries.” ◦ US has an estimated $26 trillion in shadow bank sector FSB wants to scare us big numbers…
  • 40. Using a subsample of countries with better quality data, the FSB finds that when it accounts for the fact that some “shadow banking activities” take place in a regulated entity, the size of the shadow banking sector falls from $55 trillion to $35 trillion
  • 41. Among FSB respondents, US has the largest shadow banking sector and it is growing…
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  • 43. High Quality Credit + Maturity & Liquidity Transformation = $$Money$$ • When borrowers are able to sell long-term interest paying debt and investors have confidence that payments will be made at maturity regardless of who owns the paper… • The debt can be traded among investors, held short-term, and function as “money” • A store of value that is easily converted into a medium of exchange • Also called “inside money” • It is created by the private sector without government involvement
  • 44. Inside money is created because it is useful! • The private sector demands inside money because it is a better mechanism for storing value compared government created money (outside money). • Inside money pays slightly higher interest rate than outside money • Can be created by private markets when needed • Comes with fewer government rules and regulations that sap yield • Used widely for eons by banks and nonbanks alike • If a systemic event destroys the demand for inside money, the event can cause distress in both the shadow & regulated banking systems… • Central banks have to scramble to replace inside money with central bank money to prevent economic activity from collapsing….remember the Fisher equation: M*V=P*Q ? • Have you seen this movie before?
  • 45. Shadow banking are the processes & institutions that create inside money* • Money==assets that trade on par or nearly par on demand • Publicly issued assets = outside money • Cash, Federal Reserve balances, T-Bills and short-term T-notes • Claims that are or can be turned into legal tender very quickly at near par value • Four types of institutions issue money claims • Central banks issue outside money • Banks issue deposits that are backed by public safety nets issue outside money • Dealer Banks issue overnight repos (inside money) • Money Market Mutual Funds (MMMFs) issue redeemable shares (inside money) • Banks issue uninsured deposits (inside money) • Repos and MMMF shares must be turned into demand deposits or reserves before they can be used to settle transactions * See for example Pozsar, “Shadow Banking: The Money View,” Office of Financial Research Working Paper July 2014.
  • 46. Near-money claims • Money market instruments and negotiable CDs with maturities longer than a day, but still very short term, can be converted into outside money at values very near to par • But not all money-like claims are equal • MMMFs, non-government repos, and securities lending operations are the riskiest money-like claims • The guarantee mechanism baking repos and securities lending transactions depends on the reputations (creditworthiness and liquidity) of the issuer • A repo failures leaves lender with collateral that they must liquidate
  • 47. From Pozar, Shadow Banking:The Money View, OFR Working Paper 14-04 Shadow Banking = $5.5 trillion Using “inside money” measure, US Not $26 trillion as estimated by FSB!
  • 48. Regulators Identify Financial Stability Issues & Shadow Banking • Short-term deposit like funding can lead to “runs” • Collateral-based lending can lead to excessive leverage, especially in “bubbles” • Shadow banking problems spill over to regulated banking system • Shadow banking is a rational market response to leverage constraints and other “safeguards” imposed on the regulated banking sector
  • 49. Regulators: Shadow Banking “Risk Factors” • Activities that involve any of the following may be a source of “systemic risk” • Maturity transformation • Liquidity transformation • Imperfect credit risk transfer • Leverage • Secondary issues that may indicate “latent systemic risk” • Importance of regulatory arbitrage • Interconnectedness to banking • Size of activity • High “risk-adjusted” performance relative to history
  • 50. Proposed Regulations for “Shadow Banks” • Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer has offered his views in a series of recent speeches: • In Frankfurt, Germany March 27, 2015 • At the Atlanta Fed Conference, March 30, 2015
  • 51. Vice Chairman Fischer’s “lessons” from the crisis (March 30, 2015) • “The financial crisis manifested itself in the nonbank sector and was worse for the nonbank sector than for banks” • “Nonbank distress can harm the real economy” • “Many of the problems at nonbanks were similar to the problems that plagued banks” • “FDIC can resolve banks while maintaining their functions; FED can provide liquidity to banks; bank supervisory agencies can instill confidence in banks using “stress tests”….” • “But regulators could do none of these for non banks” • “Nonbank distress can be transmitted to banks…”
  • 52. Vice Chairman Fischer’s Stability “Prescriptions” • “…we will not go far wrong if we begin by considering how to promote solvency and liquidity …of nonbanks.” • “One way to mitigate such (liquidity) problems is by having direct restrictions on the structure of (nonbank) liabilities…or requiring some nonbanks to maintain buffers of highly liquid assets…” • “restricting liquidity mismatch between (nonbank) assets and liabilities [open end mutual funds]” • “to promote solvency, one could impose ratio-type capital requirements…..(or) require that firms perform regular stress tests to demonstrate they can remain solvent and continue to lend even under stress.” • “imposing restrictions on (nonbank) structure or activities in ways that reduce the likelihood of runs.” • “impose margin requirements for securities financing transactions..”
  • 53. To protect the financial system, Vice Chairman Fischer thinks “shadow banks” require bank-like regulations… “Superman,” a.k.a. Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, the former Vice Chairman of CITI group, suits up to protect us against “Shadow Banks”…
  • 54. The Real Risk of Macroprudential Regulation: What if central bankers and financial regulators do not have Superhero powers? “Iron Man,” a.k.a. Governor Mark Carney, Head of the Bank of England, former Governor of the Bank of Canada, and current Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, in action fighting off banker efforts to moderate FSB regulatory policy proposals.
  • 55. The Fable of Dr. No… • Dr. No, a real academic in economics and finance (not his real name)―widely regarded as brilliant―uses the most up-to-date advanced approaches to manage investment portfolios using all asset classes, derivatives and trading methodologies…
  • 56. The central bank hired Dr. No, to manage macroprudential regulation,… Dr, No and his team directed how the economy’s savings was invested, making sure to preserve financial stability…. In other words, Dr. No and his team used macroprudential regulation to control the economy’s investment flows…
  • 57. Did everyone live happily ever-after? • Dr. No managed to create a macroprudential investment strategy that literally did not make money in any environment… • An extraordinary accomplishment….but not a good one. • Since its inception in August of 200X –Dr. No’s strategy lost money during almost every quarter. • It’s had something like a negative 7% compound annual return… • Not sure how this compares to historical returns earned by Soviet central planners….
  • 58. Dr. No’s Investment Strategy Performance • Dr. No’s strategy lost money • in a bad market (2011, negative 2.75%) • in a good market (2012, return was negative 7.69%) • and a raging bull market (2013, in which it lost another 8%). • It earned 8% in 2010 with the S&P was up 15%.
  • 59. Moral of the Story: Who do you trust with your future? • Yourself and millions of other individual investors who decide which risks the economy will take by choosing how to invest savings? • Or a few “superhero” central bankers? • …even the best & brightest can stumble • Dr. No is real—the best-of-the-best--like the Fed economists who will determine Macroprudential Policy • Other similar episodes…remember LTCM and its Nobel prize winners? • Macroprudential regulation puts the central bank in charge of controlling the economy’s investments —the central banker becomes the central planner
  • 60. Moral of the Story: Who do you trust with your future? • Yourself and millions of other individual investors who decide which risks the economy will take by choosing how to invest savings? • Or a few “superhero” central bankers? • …even the best and the brightest can stumble • Dr. No is real--an academic economist—the best-of-the- best--like the Fed economists who will determine Macroprudential Policy • Other similar episodes…remember LTCM? • Macroprudential regulation puts the central bank in charge of controlling the entire economy’s investments—the central bank becomes the central planner
  • 61. Central bankers want to control the economy using macroprudental regulation to allocate savings. Which outcome will we get?