[...]This paper addresses how central banks can resuscitatelending chains by providing information that reduces uncertainty about participants along the chains. This action has been taken before: the Bank Holiday of 1933, declared byPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt, resolved uncertaintyabout...

Bank supervisors have long recognized two types of shortcomingsin the Basle Accord’s risk-based capital (RBC)framework. First, the regulatory measures of “capital” maynot represent a bank’s true capacity to absorb unexpectedlosses. Deficiencies in reported loan loss reserves, forexample,...

This paper describes a new and intuitive methodfor answering these technical questions by tabulating theexact loss distribution arising from correlated credit eventsfor any arbitrary portfolio of counterparty exposures, downto the individual contract level, with the losses measuredon a...

Liberalization and deregulation have recently accelerated.It is therefore useful to keep risk within a certain level inrelation to capital, considering that financial institutionsmust control their risk appropriately to maintain thesafety and soundness of their operation. In 1988, the...

This article investigates the factors influencing the timingand funding of payments in the CHAPS Sterling system,drawing where appropriate on comparisons with paymentactivity in Fedwire...

[...]This article discusses how the Federal Reserve manages itscredit risk exposure from daylight overdrafts. We first presenta simple economic framework for thinking about the causes ofcredit risk and the possible tools that lenders have to help them manage it...