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, hedge fund regulation, and then picks up on the theme of regulatory arbitrage to discuss a broader reform issue regarding … regulatory reforms under a common theme of minimizing “regulatory arbitrage.” The comment focuses on one of their proposals …. Accordingly, regulatory arbitrage, a byproduct of regulatory diversity, provides a valuable, and little appreciated, hedge against …
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In November 2001, bank regulators finalized the so-called Recourse Rule, which lowered risk weights from 1 to 0.5 for A-rated and to 0.2 for AAA- and AA-rated private-label securitization tranches. After the rule change, on average, securitization-active bank holding companies with at least $50...
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In November 2001, regulators finalized the “Recourse Rule.” The rule lowered risk weights, and therefore commercial bank holding company capital requirements, to 0.2 for holdings of AAA- and AA-rated “private label” securitization tranches, created by investment banks and securitizing...
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). It proposes an avenue for regulators to keep regulatory arbitrage under control and preserve sufficient space for … proverbial race between hare and hedgehog in financial regulation and demonstrate how such an approach can be implemented in … proposes to apply regulatory burdens equivalent to prudential banking regulation if the respective transactional structures …
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to accomplish this task. Until the 1980s, regulation had been based largely on discretion and judgment. In the wake of … represented a synthesis of the dueling approaches to capital regulation, however some argued that the new standards led to an … explosion in the complexity of financial regulation. This case explores the history of the efforts to regulate bank capital that …
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gaps or deficiencies in the regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers. These firms often perform similar …
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We estimate the cost of capital for the banking industry and find that while the cost of capital soared for banks in the financial crisis, after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the value-weighted cost of capital for banks fell differentially more than did the cost of capital for nonbanks. The...
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Nonbank lenders have been playing an increasingly important role in the supply of debt financing, especially post Great Recession. These nonbank financial institutions not only participate in syndicated loans to large businesses but also act as direct lenders to small and mid-sized businesses,...
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unlikely to switch to a branch model. Even though host country supervisors do not lose all responsibility for the regulation …
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Like in many other countries, inclusive finance for inclusive growth has become a policy issue in Bangladesh following the global financial crisis in 2008. Over the past 10 years, intensity of financial deepening and access to financial services has increased. Both banks and microfinance...
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