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Regulators
should insist that traded derivatives are homogenous, standardized, and transparent.
It is the job of
regulators
to ensure that no one is ever granted such a license.
The adjustment process is even trickier for public institutions, especially given their wide-ranging roles as gatekeepers, enablers, and
regulators.
Yet the world’s total gross debt-to-GDP ratio has reached nearly 250%, up from 210% before the global economic crisis nearly a decade ago, despite post-crisis efforts by
regulators
in many important economies to drive the banking sector to deleverage.
Indeed, eurozone
regulators
not only maintained the assumption that the public debt of a bank’s own country was risk-free, but chose to extend it to all eurozone countries, implying that banks did not have to provide additional capital against their holdings of any eurozone public debt.
Unfortunately,
regulators
do not even appear to be learning from the current crisis in order to prevent the next one.
To this end, a bill introduced by Senator Jack Reed last December – which would require
regulators
to examine more carefully how restructuring rules could destabilize the financial system – is a positive step.
Moreover, last year,
regulators
gave the green light to GSK’s malaria vaccine.
In addition, through the Sustainable Banking Network – an association of central banks, regulators, and financial trade associations – we are helping countries develop national policies to boost green finance.
Such activities have become ubiquitous: legal services, policing, and prisons; cybercrime and the army of experts defending organizations against it; financial
regulators
trying to stop mis-selling and the growing ranks of compliance officers employed in response; the huge resources devoted to US election campaigns; real-estate services that facilitate the exchange of already-existing assets; and much financial trading.
For example, when the new class of painkillers called Cox-2 inhibitors was introduced, regulators, physicians, and patients were unaware that these drugs could cause heart attacks and strokes.
Indeed, on average, only one of every 10,000 compounds identified as potentially useful in early-stage research will ultimately win approval from
regulators.
Regulators
face a Sisyphean task, owing to the absence of strong and consistent political support for reining in the financial titans.
Monetary policy alone cannot resolve the consequences of inaction by
regulators
and supervisors amid the credit excesses of the last few years.
Judging by governments’ reactions to the crisis, one could be forgiven for thinking that market
regulators
and competition authorities should take the lead when an economy is stable, and that industrial policies should be implemented in times of emergency.
The Treasury’s study was undertaken under instructions from President Donald Trump, who was responding to pressure from several Republican congressional leaders – such as Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee – who advocate replacing
regulators
with courts.
Ultimately, while the Treasury extolled the virtues of basic bankruptcy for failed banks, it rejected repealing regulators’ powers to lead bank restructurings.
But, as the Treasury recognized, eliminating the
regulators
is a problematic proposition.
Restructuring banks in a crisis requires planning, familiarity with the bank’s strengths and weaknesses, knowledge of how best to time the bankruptcy in a volatile economy, and a capacity to coordinate with foreign
regulators.
The courts cannot fulfill these tasks, especially not in the time currently allotted for a bank bankruptcy – a 48-hour weekend – without regulators’ prior planning and immediate advice, as well as international coordination.
And they are in no position to coordinate proceedings with foreign
regulators.
Yet banks still hold only eight or nine cents per dollar of funding in equity, despite regulators’ pushed for an increase , and the biggest banks have called for reducing even this suboptimal ratio.
Regulators
and bankers have sought a middle ground to boost safety.
Nor has a single criminal financier-gambler, who misled the financial
regulators
with fudged figures, been brought to justice.
Yet the intellectual left has gone to great lengths to absolve regulators, government lending mandates, and agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of any responsibility for the housing boom and the subsequent bust.
Can
regulators
be trusted to make appropriate trade-offs between financial stability and mandates that have wide political support?
It is far more defensible and correct to argue that everyone – bankers, households, regulators, and politicians – contributed to (and took credit for) the boom while it lasted, only to point fingers at one another when it collapsed.
But this ignores the possibility that
regulators
may have started to enforce the CRA rigorously only later.
To enforce the statute,
regulators
periodically examine banks for CRA compliance.
Regulators’ primary tool to enforce compliance was their authority to reject non-CRA-compliant banks’ requests for new branches or mergers.
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