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Developing-country financial
regulators
have already taken steps to direct investment toward their countries’ most pressing needs.
The skimpy enforcement measures undertaken by bank
regulators
since the crisis are nowhere near appropriate to what is at stake.
As the industry and European
regulators
now reflect on this dismal state of affairs and search for solutions, they should consider banks’ revenue distribution – including employee bonuses and shareholder dividends – as part of the problem.
But most banks mollified
regulators
by simply shedding riskier assets to improve their capital ratios.
Banks that failed the stress test and didn’t take the result seriously are partly to blame, but so, too, are
regulators
who did not sufficiently hold the banks’ feet to the fire to improve their balance sheets, and who may have applied stress tests that were too weak to detect financial frailty.
Regulators
now suppose that the European banking sector is resilient to adverse shocks.
We estimate that if European
regulators
had adopted this approach and forced banks to stop paying dividends in 2010 – the start of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe – the retained equity could have paid for more than 50% of the 2016 capital shortfalls.
Such a policy would not even require
regulators
to broach topics like capital issuance, bailouts, or bail-ins, and some banks have even already begun to suspend dividend payments.
China’s bank
regulators
have already permitted experiments in debt-equity swaps, which the International Monetary Fund says should be incorporated in a comprehensive strategy to accelerate reform of state-owned enterprises.
Unfortunately, progress has since stalled, owing to the vehement risk-aversion of
regulators.
But
regulators
can undo miracles, and they regularly do.
When you weigh this against the possibility of the development of the drug industry’s Next Big Thing or, at the very least, a new method to produce high-value compounds at low cost, regulators’ preoccupation with such unlikely events appears to be misplaced.
If we are to reap what we can sow, however, we will need reasonable, science-based policies from
regulators
worldwide.
The stunning opacity of solvency ratios encouraged
regulators
to turn a blind eye to banks’ excessive risk-taking.
In 2007, several executives of the parent company of Purdue Pharma, which markets OxyContin, pleaded guilty to misleading doctors, regulators, and patients about the risk of addiction associated with the drug.
The Trouble With Financial BubblesLONDON – Very soon after the magnitude of the 2008 financial crisis became clear, a lively debate began about whether central banks and
regulators
could – and should – have done more to head it off.
As the pressure on Irish
regulators
to relax lending rules intensifies, so do concerns that they will succumb to it.
Regulators
might consider imposing pro-cyclical equity requirements – increasing the equity percentage in boom times in order to offset losses in the inevitable bust times.
In addition,
regulators
should require banks to issue an additional amount of capital – say, 10% – in the form of long-term debt that is forced to convert into equity if the bank and the overall banking system get into financial difficulty.
Regulators, in particular, will need to work fast to keep up, as best they can, in a fast-changing financial milieu.
Germany v. GoogleLONDON – American tech companies are under unprecedented attack by European Union
regulators.
Nothing else ultimately explains lenders’ immense willingness, in the boom up to 2006, to lower their credit standards on home mortgages, regulators’ willingness to let them do it, rating agencies’ willingness to rate mortgage securities highly, and investors’ willingness to gobble them up.
Bank
regulators
had long insisted that the safest possible financial instrument was a bond issued by a rich industrial country.
If China’s
regulators
issue the right licenses, the financial sector will play a key role in nurturing and sustaining the consumer society of tomorrow.
Given the problems with ratings agencies, investors and
regulators
recognize the need for a different approach.
Regulators, meanwhile, are now starting to require banks to develop their own internal ratings processes.
Restructuring a mega-bank requires pre-planning, familiarity with the bank’s strengths and weaknesses, knowledge of how to time the bankruptcy properly in a volatile economy, and the capacity to coordinate with foreign
regulators.
And they cannot coordinate with foreign
regulators.
In short, completing a proper restructuring would require contributions from regulators, including pre-planning, advice, and coordination.
Yet, far from accepting these contributions, the plan would largely cut
regulators
out of the process.
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