Das Financial Stability Board (FSB) schlägt zur Lösung des "too big to fail"-Problems einen neuen Risikokapital-Puffer für global tätige systemrelevante Banken vor. Die Kennzahl „Total Loss Absorbing Capacity“ (TLAC), seDas Financial Stability Board (FSB) schlägt zur Lösung des "too...

A recent proposal by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) suggests a new risk capital buffer for globally operating systemically important financial institutions. The suggested metric, "Total Loss Absorbing Capacity" (TLAC), is composed of Tier-1 capital and loss absorbing debt. In a crisis...

Der Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zur Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie 2014/59/EU zur Festlegung eines Rahmens für die Sanierung und Abwicklung von Kreditinstituten und Wertpapierfirmen ("BRRD-Umsetzungsgesetz") berührt auch die Frage der institutionellen Struktur für die Zuständigkeit für...

In this note, a new concept for a European deposit guarantee scheme is proposed, which takes account of the strong political reservations against a mutualization of the liability for bank deposits. The three-stage model for deposit insurance outlined in the text builds on existing national...

This paper makes an attempt to present the economics of credit securitisation in a nontechnical way, starting from the description and the analysis of a typical securitisation transaction. The paper sketches a theoretical explanation for why tranching, or nonproportional risk sharing, which is...