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Bankers Without Borders? Implications of Ring-Fencing for European Cross-Border Banks

By Yuliya Makarova, Anna Ilyina, Christian Schmieder, Eugenio M Cerutti

November 1, 2010

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Yuliya Makarova, Anna Ilyina, Christian Schmieder, and Eugenio M Cerutti. Bankers Without Borders? Implications of Ring-Fencing for European Cross-Border Banks, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed December 22, 2024
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Summary

This paper presents a stylized analysis of the effects of ring-fencing (i.e., different restrictions on cross-border transfers of excess profits and/or capital between a parent bank and its subsidiaries located in different jurisdictions) on cross-border banks. Using a sample of 25 large European banking groups with subsidiaries in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CESE), we analyze the impact of a CESE credit shock on the capital buffers needed by the sample banking groups under different forms of ring-fencing. Our simulations show that under stricter forms of ring-fencing, sample banking groups have substantially larger needs for capital buffers at the parent and/or subsidiary level than under less strict (or in the absence of any) ring-fencing.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Cross-border banking, Cross-border effects, Nonperforming loans

Keywords: Bank, Banking group, Capital, Group, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    35

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2010/247

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2010247

  • ISBN:

    9781455209477

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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