bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

between these vehicles and lead banks. CLOs that have a relationship with the lead bank of the renegotiated loan are strong … fund not only their portion of the loan increase, but also the portion that was supposed to be funded by the lead bank. Our … findings highlight the previously unrecognized role of the growing presence of non-bank lenders in corporate lending. …

Bank holding companies (BHCs) can be complex organizations, conducting multiple lines of business through many distinct … legal entities and across a range of geographies. While such complexity raises the costs of bank resolution when …, liquidity management, and synergy improvements that reduce risk. The outcomes of such trade-offs may depend on bank governance …

This paper studies the relationship between bank holding company affiliation and the individual and systemic risk of … banks. Using the 2005 hurricane season in the US as an exogenous shock to bank balance sheets, we show that banks that are …