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What drives episodes of settlement fails in the government of Canada bond market?

Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien; Pinnington, James; Walton, Adrian - 2017

We study settlement fails for trades in the Government of Canada bond market. We find that settlement fails do not occur independently. Using a novel and comprehensive dataset, we examine three drivers of fails. First, we find that fails are more likely following the release of surprise...

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Capital, Contagion, and Financial Crises : What Stops a Run from Spreading?

Tabor, Nicholas Kean - 2020

After the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers focused on enacting improvements in two areas of financial regulation: capital and liquidity, affecting the composition of bank assets and the sources of bank funding. These improvements made both the emergence of a crisis less likely and the...

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The Structure, Scope, and Independence of Bank Supervision : An International Comparison

Nolle, Daniel E. - 2012

Many countries around the world have experienced banking crises in the past two decades, and all countries are …

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Reviving the Gold Standard

Taskinsoy, John - 2023

than an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. media covers fear stories of some dictators around the world, and …, the World Bank, Bank for International Settlements, and the United Nation to maintain exorbitant privilege and dollar … superpowers in a bipolar world; waged war against Iraq (Persian Gulf War in 1991 and Iraq War in 2003) to free the country and the …

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Anonymous credentials : secret-free and quantum-safe

Kazmi, Raza Ali; Minwalla, Cyrus - 2023 - Last updated: September 28, 2023

An anonymous credential mechanism is a set of protocols that allows users to obtain credentials from an organization and demonstrate ownership of these credentials without compromising users' privacy. In this work, we construct the first secret-free and quantum-safe credential mechanism. The...

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An examination of net-zero commitments by the world's largest banks : promising beginnings, significant room for improvement

Di Maio, Carlo; Dimitropoulou, Maria; Farkas, Zoe Lola; … - 2023

We examined the net-zero commitments made by Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs). In recent years, large banks have significantly increased their ambition and now disclose more details regarding their net-zero targets. There is also growing convergence, with the vast majority of G-SIBs...

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Capital Regulation as Climate Policy

Michaels, Joel - 2023

Federal banking regulators are grappling with how to confront the threats posed by climate change. There are increasingly loud calls for regulators to adjust the “risk-weights” used to calculate banks’ minimum capital requirements based on how exposed their counterparties are to...

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Powerpoint Presentation of Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008; Paving the Way for the Next Financial Crisis

Simkovic, Michael - 2010

This article explains the roots of financial crises in one of the oldest and most fundamental problems of commercial law: hidden leverage. Common law courts wrestled with this problem for centuries and developed a time – tested solution: the doctrine of secret liens. If the debtor becomes...

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Reducing Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk

Lindley, Robert - 2013

Much progress has been made in reducing settlement risk in foreign exchange markets, particularly through use of CLS Bank. However, the remaining exposures are sometimes still significantly large and not always well managed, creating the potential for systemic risk. To address this problem, it...

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Central bank liquidity policy in modern times

Brooks, Skylar - 2024

Central banks play a crucial role in promoting financial stability. They act as financial system stabilizers through their capacity to create liquidity and channel it to financial institutions and markets in times of stress - a role that has evolved and expanded substantially over the past 15...

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