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Nov 16, 2022 · Financial regulation is designed to make systemic crises less likely, but diverse approaches to risk are needed to absorb future shocks, says an economist.
- Jon Danielsson
Nov 27, 2020 · The global financial crisis of 2008 raised the spectre of the avaricious banker undermining the stability of the real economy through imprudent lending, fancy tricks, and collusion with regulators.
- Catherine R Schenk
- 2021
- What Happened? and Why?
- Have We Seen This before?
- How Does This Affect Canada?
- Will This Lead to A Recession?
Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse all faced different problems made worse by rising interest rates. But the common thread was lack of confidence, said Pedro Antunes, chief economist at the Conference Board of Canada. Banking is built on confidence. If depositors lose faith, panic and rush to withdraw their a...
Lawmakers such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have pushed back on the idea that these incidents echo the onset of the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. SVB's failure was the largest collapse of a U.S. banking institution since Washington Mutual — among many others — went under in 2008. Shortly after longtime rival UBS agreed to bu...
Canadians don't have much to worry about, according to Schamotta, because our banking system is "far more secure, far more diversified and far more regulated," than those of the U.S. or Europe. "So this is an issue that is probably most important from a psychological perspective, less important in terms of your bank deposits," he said. The 2008 cri...
A recession was predicted in Canada for 2023, and recent events could lead to a slightly deeper dip in economic activity, Antunes said. However, any potential recession will differ from past slumps because the current slowdown is coming with few job losses, as employment continues to trendupward. "This recession is going to be very, very different ...
Oct 5, 2023 · This report provides an assessment of the causes of the banking turmoil, the regulatory and supervisory responses, and the initial lessons learnt. The discussion is not an indication of planned revisions to the Basel Framework.
Mar 31, 2021 · The performance of bank regulation from the global financial crisis to early 2020. The shape of today’s banking regulatory framework largely reflects the responses to the 2008–09 global financial crisis, in which bank fragility played a major role.
Mar 17, 2023 · The Fed, Treasury and FDIC acted swiftly to protect depositors and stem any panic, but anxiety continues to grow about the state of the global financial system.
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Apr 18, 2018 · The crisis demonstrated that microprudential regulation focusing on the risks taken by individual banks is not sufficient to prevent crises. This is because it ignores systemic risk.
