Deposits
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If savers in Portuguese banks start moving their money to Germany, the ECB will recycle these euros back to Portugal through interbank
deposits.
Commercial banks must deposit with the central bank 21.5% of
deposits
as reserves.
After flirting with disaster last July, interest-rate spreads for eurozone bonds have generally been subdued, and financial segmentation has been slowly reversed (that is, at least before European officials embarked on the controversial path of trying to impose losses on guaranteed bank
deposits
in Cyprus).
Although the value of the bank’s assets doesn’t exceed its liabilities, depositors won’t flee as long as the government backs the bank by guaranteeing its
deposits.
Their compatriots in Sierra Leone also want to know what will happen now that they, too, have won the commodities lottery: last year, the country struck oil and discovered one of the largest iron-ore
deposits
in the world.
At the same time, finance takes on quasi-fiscal functions by excluding government fiscal
deposits
– government
deposits
in the national treasury, commercial banks’ fiscal savings, and central treasury cash managed through commercial-bank
deposits
– from the money supply.
Deposits
will flow back into Greek banks.
But now commercial banks are willing to hold their excess reserves at the Fed, because the Fed now pays interest on those
deposits.
The ECB also pays interest on deposits, so it, too, can in principle prevent higher reserves from leading to an unwanted lending explosion.
If credit expands too rapidly, the Fed can raise the interest rate that it pays on
deposits.
How high would the Fed – or the ECB, for that matter – have to raise the interest rate on
deposits
to prevent excessive growth in bank lending?
Relentless extraction is quickly depleting China’s resource
deposits.
If large corporations (and other banks) have
deposits
that they expect to be able to claim on short notice, and if they know that not all such
deposits
can be withdrawn at the same time, then suspicion that a bank might fail gives them as much reason to rush to the exit as households have.
Lending between banks, as well as
deposits
placed by large corporations, increased spectacularly in the years leading up to the crisis.
This is particularly true of the repo markets, which provide the equivalent services for professional investors – banks and large corporations – that ordinary bank
deposits
provide for individuals and small firms.
RMB
deposits
in Hong Kong banks are also down by half.
More recent developments may have contributed to the downward pressure on prices, including discussion about abolishing interest-rate ceilings on
deposits
(the cap on term
deposits
of one year or more was removed on August 25).
As confidence that Greece will remain in the eurozone plummets, a run on
deposits
will cause the banking system – and, eventually, the real economy – to collapse.
The T-bills could be sold to the ECB at any time, making them tantamount to cash; but, as long as they yield more than
deposits
with the ECB, the banks would find it advantageous to hold them.
That is the main purpose behind the proposed taxes on foreign exchange transactions now being discussed around the globe, as well as devices like Chile's extra reserve requirements on foreign-owned
deposits.
Egypt and Tunisia need immediate cash
deposits
and grants, and their newly elected leaderships should not be forced to resort to begging.
Most important, the EU added Sberbank, a cornerstone of Russia’s financial system, with assets totaling almost 30% of Russian GDP and about half of Russian retail
deposits.
Germany already faces large financial risks, owing to the ECB’s balance sheet and the Target2 balances at the Bundesbank that are generated by international flows of
deposits
to German commercial banks.
His 60-point plan included reforms of fiscal policy and the financial sector that would set market interest rates on loans and deposits, permit some private-investor participation in state-owned enterprises, increase the role of small and medium-size enterprises, loosen labor restrictions, and introduce property taxes to boost revenue for local authorities.
In the last decade, the average real (inflation-adjusted) return on
deposits
has been near zero.
Even worse, the country’s savers lost trust in their own government, and started to withdraw their
deposits.
If Greek savers withdraw only one-half of their remaining deposits, the ECB will have to lend another €100 billion to Greek banks to keep them afloat.
At the same time, they hurt middle-class savers, who typically rely on duller savings instruments like bank
deposits.
While not technically banks, these institutions are able to accept customer
deposits
and payments electronically through mobile phones or at licensed locations like a post office.
They have also aggravated the weakness of external finances, contributing to a sharp drop in international reserves that has been contained only by exceptional loans and
deposits
from abroad.
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