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The Nonbank-Bank Nexus and the Shadow Banking System

By Manmohan Singh, Zoltan Pozsar

December 1, 2011

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Manmohan Singh, and Zoltan Pozsar. The Nonbank-Bank Nexus and the Shadow Banking System, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 12, 2024
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Summary

The present way of thinking about financial intermediation does not fully incorporate the rise of asset managers as a major source of funding for banks through the shadow banking system. Asset managers are dominant sources of demand for non-M2 types of money and serve as source collateral ?mines' for the shadow banking system. Banks receive funding through the re-use of pledged collateral ?mined' from asset managers. Accounting for this, the size of the shadow banking system in the U.S. may be up to $25 trillion at year-end 2007 and $18 trillion at year-end 2010, higher than earlier estimates. In terms of policy, regulators will need to consider the re-use of pledged collateral when defining bank leverage ratios. Also, given asset managers' demand for non-M2 types of money, monitoring the shadow banking system will warrant closer attention well beyond the regulatory perimeter.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Asset management, Banking, Collateral, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial services, Securities, Shadow banking

Keywords: Asset, Asset management, Asset manager, Asset manger, Assets of the bank, Bank, Bank X, Collateral, Commercial banks, Commercial paper, Global, Holding company, Maturity transformation, Off-balance sheet leverage, Rehypothecation, Securities, Securities borrower, Securities lender, Shadow banking, Shadow banking system, Source collateral, WP, Y. Thus FoF

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    19

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2011/289

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2011289

  • ISBN:

    9781463927233

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941