Central bank collateral policies came under pressure with the 2007-08 financial market crisis. This paper addresses the … rationale for and constraints in taking collateral, and recent practices in different collateral frameworks. It then considers … the risks of adverse selection. The paper concludes that (i) the collateral framework needs to include market incentives …

In global financial centers, short-term market rates are effectively determined in the pledged collateral market, where … banks and other financial institutions exchange collateral (such as bonds and equities) for money. Furthermore, the use of … long-dated securities as collateral for short tenors-or example, in securities-lending and repo markets, and prime …

been a significant decline in the interconnectedness in the pledged collateral market between banks and nonbanks. We find … that both the collateral and its associated velocity are not rebounding as of end-2011 and still about $4-5 trillion lower …