#margining market – Federal Financial Analytics

16 11, 2022

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Eliza Allen2022-11-16T17:14:29-05:00November 16th, 2022|2- Daily Briefing|

Treasury Calls for Tough Fintech and Bank-Partnership Protection, Prudential Standards

Treasury has completed a long-pending study of the extent to which nonbank fintechs compete with banks and how this affects financial stability and consumer protection. We will shortly provide clients with an in-depth analysis of this report, for which Karen Petrou was extensively interviewed as now noted publicly in the appendix. The report was ordered by the Secretary in compliance with President Biden’s competition order (see Client Report MERGER6), finding that nonbank fintechs directly compete with banks and thus may reduce current concentration levels, sure to influence the inter-agency bank-merger policy that remains to be finalized.

Williams Presses for NBFI Standards

In remarks today, FRB-NY President John Williams said that the central bank should not adjust monetary policy to address the price-stability challenges of volatile Treasury markets and that financial-stability questions have generally been well-addressed as evident in the sound U.S. banking system. Noting recent findings in the latest staff report (see Client Report TMARKET3), Mr. Williams also called for structural changes to NBFIs along lines also laid out by the FSB (see Client Report NBFI2), arguing that MMFs and other NBFIs must be a market source of strength, not of vulnerability requiring rescue beyond the Fed’s new standing facility.

G20 Blesses FSB, Basel Work Plans

In addition to top-priority concerns such as Ukraine, the G-20 Leader’s Declaration today tackled the usual financial-policy agenda, supporting the FSB’s recent NBFI report (see Client …

14 11, 2022

FedFin on: Treasury Inches Closer to All-to-All Trading

Arezou Rafikian2022-11-14T16:01:03-05:00November 14th, 2022|The Vault|

Building on our initial assessment, this report goes in-depth into the Treasury assessment of the market for its obligations and reforms necessary to avert another dash for cash. Although the Federal Reserve, which participated in this study along with other agencies, indicated in 2020 it will review the supplemental leverage ratio (SLR) to…

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14 11, 2022

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Eliza Allen2022-11-14T15:46:49-05:00November 14th, 2022|5- Client Report|

Treasury Inches Closer to All-to-All Trading

Building on our initial assessment, this report goes in-depth into the Treasury assessment of the market for its obligations and reforms necessary to avert another dash for cash. Although the Federal Reserve, which participated in this study along with other agencies, indicated in 2020 it will review the supplemental leverage ratio (SLR) to enhance bond-market liquidity, it has yet to do so and no mention is made of any such reform in this report. To be sure, this is only a Treasury report that does not necessarily reflect the views of these other agencies, but the Fed and Treasury usually work closely on matters such as this and it seems unlikely that the matter would go unmentioned if plans were under way to revise the SLR. The 2022 report builds on the inter-agency working group’s 2021 analysis (see Client Report TMARKET2) but still does not reach firm conclusions or lay out specific recommendations suitable for near-term action. However, work is in fact under way at the SEC, which has proposed a new central-clearing mechanism for Treasury obligations that, if finalized, would create at least some of the infrastructure necessary for the all-to-all trading this report now explores in greater detail. Next steps for Treasury-market reform will be discussed at a conference later this week.

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14 11, 2022

FedFin on: Global Regulators Prioritize CCP, End-User Resilience

Arezou Rafikian2022-11-14T16:00:23-05:00November 14th, 2022|The Vault|

As promised, this FedFin report provides an in-depth analysis of the FSB’s latest policy on nonbank financial intermediation. As is often the case, much in the report discusses data gaps, presses for international cooperation, and details FSB and national work to date on the issues identified in its initial analysis after the 2020 crisis (see FSM Report NBFI). Most of FSB’s work since has focused on MMFs (see FSM Report MMF18), with this latest report going on to lay out ….

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14 11, 2022

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William Cross2022-11-14T12:16:04-05:00November 14th, 2022|5- Client Report|

Global Regulators Prioritize CCP, End-User Resilience

As promised, this FedFin report provides an in-depth analysis of the FSB’s latest policy on nonbank financial intermediation. As is often the case, much in the report discusses data gaps, presses for international cooperation, and details FSB and national work to date on the issues identified in its initial analysis after the 2020 crisis (see FSM Report NBFI). Most of FSB’s work since has focused on MMFs (see FSM Report MMF18), with this latest report going on to lay out more specific policy options for OEFs, margining, core bond markets, and other target areas. The report also calls for attention to systemic NBFI concerns, noting risks at family offices, prime brokers, life insurers, and pension funds, as well as “hidden leverage” without discussing what might best be done about them.

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10 12, 2021

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Arezou Rafikian2023-05-23T12:44:10-04:00December 10th, 2021|2- Daily Briefing|

FRB Stipulates Archegos-Risk Remedies
As forecast when Archegos broke (see Client Report HEDGE59), the FRB today issued new, tough guidance detailing its supervisory expectations for large-bank exposures to investment funds.

FSB Advances Cross-Border Payment Revamp
Building on its new cross-border payment policy (see FSM Report PAYMENT23), the FSB today sought comment on how national and regional data frameworks affect the cost, speed, access, security, and the interoperability of cross-border payments.

Aborted Merger Paper Hits Partisan Battle Lines
Following yesterday’s battle over an RFI on bank mergers, senators are squaring off on both process and policy. Banking Chair Brown (D-OH) agreed with it, arguing that what he calls M&A “rubber stamping” hurts communities and creates banking deserts.

Waters Demands Regional-Bank Merger Moratorium
Uping the ante on bank mergers after the FDIC fracas over an RFI, HFSC Chairwoman Waters (D-CA) late this afternoon called on the FRB, OCC, and FDIC to hold all M&A over $100 billion until completion of this review, one under way by the FRB and Department of Justice, and any similar OCC assessments.

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1 11, 2021

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Arezou Rafikian2023-06-05T10:37:24-04:00November 1st, 2021|2- Daily Briefing|

FSB Presses NBFI Analysis, Bank Inter-Connectedness
The FSB today updated its late-2020 paper on nonbank financial intermediaries (see Client Report NBFI), largely reiterating the reasons it then said that global regulators need to act without indicating any actual action beyond its recent MMF Principals (see FSM Report MMF18) and work focused on margin calls.

HFSC Dems: BNPL, Other Fintech Products Present Consumer-Protection Risks
Ahead of its Fintech Task Force hearing tomorrow examining buy-now, pay-later and other fintech cash-flow products, HFSC’s majority staff memo indicates Democrats have significant consumer-protection concerns although no immediate solutions to address them.

PWG Slams Stablecoins, Agencies Outline Action Plan
The President’s Working Group today spearheaded an inter-agency report on stablecoins that, as anticipated, takes a very dim view of this form of cryptography outside the regulatory perimeter. As we will detail shortly in an in-depth analysis, the report lays out a litany of systemic, compliance, trading, and consumer concerns, noting in particular key gaps when it comes to the payment system.

Fed Study Shows Macro Impact of Fed Muni Backstop
A new FRB-NY Staff paper looks at the Fed’s municipal-debt backstop, concluding that it served not only as a generic muni-market stabilizer, but also as a credit risk-share facility for low-rated issuers that supported municipal employment at the worst of the crisis.

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