Exchanges and other trading platforms are often vertically integrated to carry out trading, clearing and settlement as one operation. We show that such vertical silos can prevent efficiency gains from horizontal consolidation of trading and settlement platforms to be realized. Independent of the...

The competition between a central securities depository (CSD) and a custodian bank is analysed in a Stackelberg model. The CSD sets its prices first, the custodian bank follows. There are many investor banks each of which has to decide whether to use the service of the CSD or of the custodian...

This paper compares securities settlement gross and netting architectures. It studies settlement risk arising from exogenous operational delays and compares settlement failures between the two architectures as functions of the length of the settlement interval under different market conditions....

This paper investigates the impact on the network growth of the level of merchant discount, the level of Multilateral Interchange Fee (MIF), and the consumers' and the merchants' awareness of positive network effects. In an artificial market, in which issuers and acquirers belong to the same...

This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We...

2003 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of SUERF. To mark this milestone, some time ago the Council of Management commissioned Professor Jean-Paul Abraham to write a commemorative report. His mandate was not to write a history of SUERF itself (that would be too self-indulgent) but to...

Sollte die Finanzaufsicht reformiert und gestärkt werden? Thomas Mayer, Chefvolkswirt, Europa, bei der Deutschen Bank, London, beantwortet diese Frage klar mit einem Ja. Eine bessere Finanzaufsicht bedeute jedoch nicht dichtere Regulierungen und mehr Regulatoren, sondern klare...

Sollte die Finanzaufsicht reformiert und gestärkt werden? Nach Meinung von des Präsidenten des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes, Heinrich Haasis, hat sich die Finanzaufsicht in diesem Sommer bewährt, und das Bemühen um weitere Konvergenz und Kooperation im europäischen Bereich sollte...