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- The two main sources of funds are deposits and borrowed funds. Banks are highly levaraged, holding littel equity, because most of their assets are funded by debt.
Commercial Bank Liabilities
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1. Transaccction accounts 2. Small nontransaction accounts 3. Negotiable certificates of deposits
The major segments of deposit funds:
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include noninterest paying checking accounts (depand deposits) and interest paying chacking accounts (NOW, negotiable order of withdrawal, accounts)
Transaction accounts
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comprixe a large but shrinking section of deposit funds because banks are competing with money market mutual funds for those customers
Small nontransaction accounts
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are fixed maturity, interest-bearing deposits that can be traded in the secondary market
Negotiable certificates of deposits (CDs)
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- purchases of federal funds, repurchase agreements, notes and bonds. - A commercial banks's liabilities have a shorter maturity structure and are more liquid than its assets. That causes a matuirty mismatch that results in interest rate risk and liquidity risk. - Regulators require banks to maintain a minimum level of equity capital. Banks stick close to that minimum because equity funding is more expensive than laibility funding (funds from depositors)
Commercial bank's borrowed funds include....
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Because the competitiion for high quality loan applicants is intense, banks engage in off-balance-sheet activities to charge fees and to raise more capital
Off balance sheet activities of commercial banks
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the occurrence of a specified event moves the item onto the asset side of the balance sheet or converts it into realized revenue on the income statement.
An intem or activity is an off-balance-sheet (OBS) asset if
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the occurrence of a specified event moves the item onto the liability side of the balance sheet or converts it inot realized expense on the income statement.
An item or activity is an OBS liability if
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to raise funds while avoiding the need to raise reserves or to pay deposit insurance premiums because the the items do not appear on the balance sheet until the contigent event occurs.
Off balance sheet activities allow the bank
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insolvency exposures
OBS increase banks
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risk by reducing or hedging banks' intererst rate, credit, and foreign exchange risks.
OBS decrease
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- transactions in derivatives, loan commitments, standby letters, letters of credit, when-issued securities, loans sold, trust services and correspondent banking.
Major OBS activities include
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futures, forwards, swaps and options
Derivatives
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- hold and manager assets for individuals and corproations - the 2 largest groups of clients are individuals and pension funds
Trust Services
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- provides banking services to banks that lack the staff to provide those services for themsleves. - typical services include: check clearing and collection, foreign eschange trading, hedging services and participation in large loans and securities. - the bank receiving the services pays for them through noninterest bearing deposits.
Correspondent Banking
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Regulatory deveopments in the past 20 years have led to the consolidation of the banking industry. - in the 80s and 90s regulators began to let banks merge with other banks across state lines, which resulted in a great number of bank mergers
How economies of scale and scope effect commercial banks:
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lets banks branch across state lines
The Reigle-Neal Act of 1994
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lets commercial banks merge with investment banks
The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999
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1. Economies of Scale 2. Economies of scope
Banks merge to form larger banks to save money through
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- bank expansion reduces the average cost of producing services. - Enhanced and improved technology lowers all banks' average costs, but larger banks can buy more and better technology and use it to provide services to more customers, maximizing the cost savings - Large scale technological investments soemtimes don't create expected future revenues, causing banks to operate under condition of diseconomies of scale
Economies of scale
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the average costs of financial service production increase
Diseconomies of scale
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- combining financial services reduces the cost of producing each service separately. - take the forms of reduced costs and increased volume -
Economies of scope
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occur when providing one financial sercie lowers the cost of providing other financail services
Costs economies of scope
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lets a single finamcial institution provide banking, securities, and underwriting activities, creating cost economies of scope.
The Financial Services Modernization Act
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a. a merger includes a FI in a growing market b. a merger brings together 2 asset and liability portfolios that offset each other's risks (which often occurs when the merging institutions are in different geographic areas) and/or c. a merger expands an already successful FI inot a less competitive area
Revenue economies of scope occur when
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are small banks (under $1billion in assets) that specialize in retain and/or consumer banking. - They finance their activities through depsits, fee, and interest.
Community Banks
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- are large banks (over $1billion in assets) - finance their activities through purchased funds and capital markets as well as through depositis.
Regional or Superregional banks
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- are larger banks in major financial centers that rely heavily on borrowed funds. - because large banks loan money to large corporations, their interest rate spread and net interest margin are lower than for small banks. - large banks also pay more for salaries, buildings and supplies.
Money center banks
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the average interest rate charged on loans minus the average interest paid on deposits
Interest rate spread
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[(Interest income - interest expense) / earning assets]
net interest margin
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Loans 90 days or more past due and all loans not accruing interst
Noncurrent loans
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actual losses on loans ans leases
Net charge-offs
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income before taxes and extraordinary items
Net Operating income
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1. Controlled disbursement account 2. Account reconciliation 3. Lockbox service 4. Electronic lockbox 5. Funds concentration 6. Electronic funds transfer 7. Check deposit service 8. Electronic Initiaion of letter of credit 9. Treasury management software 10. Electronic data intercahnge 11. Business-to-business e-commerce 12. Electronic billing 13. Encryption technology
13 technological innovations in the wholesale banking industry
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informs the client in the morning of the total disbursements likely to be made from the client's account during that day
Controlled disbursement
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records which of the client's checks have been paid by the bank
Account reconciliation
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is a centralized collection service for corporate payments that reduces the delay in float and wries the details to the corporate client
Lockbox services
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the time it takes a check to clear
float
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is a lockbox service that collects online payments for public utilities and other corporate clients.
Electronic lockbox
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redirects funds from several accounts at several banks to fewer accounts at one bank
Funds concentration
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makes overnight payments, automated payment of payroll and dividends, and automated transmission of payment instructions
Electronic funds transfer
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encodes, endorses, microfilms and handles customers' checks
Check deposit services
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lets customers request letters of credit via the bank's computer
Electronic initiation of letter of credit
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facilitates efficient management of muliple currency and security portfolios
Treasury management software
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is email that lets businesses transfer and trasact invoices, purcahse orders, and shipping notices automatically, via their bank's computer
Electonic data interchange
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automates information flow for buying and shipping goods and sevices among large and small businesses
Business-to-Business e-commerce
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automates businesses' collection services
Electronic billing
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verifies clients' identities
Encryption technology
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1. Automated teller machine 2. Point-of-sale debit card 3. Preauthorized debit/credit 4. Telephone payment 5. On-line banking 6. Smart Card
6 technological innovations in the retail banking industry
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ATM allows 24 hour world-wide access to checking accounts
Automated Teller Machine
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POS - pays for goods via an immediate transfer of funds
Point-of-sale debit card
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deposits payroll checks and pays mortgage and utliity bills automatically
Preauthorized debit/card
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uses voice or touch tone commands to transfer funds
Telephone payment
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lets customers conduct banking and investment activities via the internet
On-line banking
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a card with a chip stoage device that "stores" money and disburses it on command.
smart card
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1. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 2. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) 3. The Federal Reserve System (FRS, the Fed) 4. State authorities
4 key commercial bank regulators
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FDIC - was est. in 1933 to insure commercial bank deposits - levies insurance premiums, manages the insurance deposit fund and the S&L fund, conducts bank examinations, and acts as areceiver and liquidator when insured banks close.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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OCC - was est. in 1863 to charter, examine, approve the bergers of, and close national banks.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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banks may be nationally chartered or state chartered, gives banks a choice of regulators. - Most large banks apply for national charters, but some banks prefer the less-heavily-regulated state charters.
The dual banking system
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regulates all nationally chartered banks, all state chartered member banks, and those banks' holding companies
The Federal Reserve System (FRS, the Fed)
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parent companies that own controlling interests in their bank subsidiaries
holding companies
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charter and regulate banks in their states
State authorities
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1. risk diversification 2. Economies of scale 3. Innovation 4. Funds source 5. Customer relationships 6. Regulatory avoidance
6 advantages of international bank expansion
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International banks depend less on thier domestic economies
Risk Diversification
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Expansion lowers a bank's average operating costs
Economies of Scale
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Selling new products internationally generates additional returns
Innovation
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International banks can find the best and cheapest sources of funds
Funds source
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International banks can better meet the needs of their multinational clients
Customer relationships
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International banks can pursue activities abroad that are regulated against domestically
Regulatory avoidance
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1. Information/monitoring costs 2. Nationalization/Expropriation 3. Fixed Costs
3 disadvantages of international expansion
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International banks must monitor their foreign investments closely. Information consts on those investments may be higher than they would be domestically.
Information/monitoring costs
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Changing governments may lead to nationalization of a bank's foreign branches
Nationalization/Expropriation
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It is expensive to establish a foreign branch
Fixed Costs
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1. Safety and soundness regulations 2. Monetary policy regulation 3. Credit allocation regulation 4. Consumer protection regulation 5. Investor protection regulation 6. Entry and chartering regulation
6 types of banking regulations
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Protects depositors and borrowers from commercial bank failures. - The 1st layer of protection requires CB to diversify their assets - The 2nd layer of protection sets minimum equiety requirements, because the equity holders are junior clmts to the CB's assets in the event of a bank failure - The 3rd layer of protection requires guarantee funds to protect depositors against bank failures - The 4th layer of protection is bank monitoring and surveillance by regulators. Safety and soundness regulation imposes a regulatory burden on commercial bankds because each CB incurs costs while complying with regulations. - The net regulatory burden equals the CB's private benefist minus the CBs private costs of regulation.
Safety and Soundness regulation
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uses minimum reserve requirements to control commercial bandks and implement monetary policy. - If reserve requirements are higher than the CB would otherwise hold, those requirements increase the CB's regulatory burden by tying up money that could have been loaned.
Monetary policy regualtion
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supports lending to socially important sectors, such as housing and farming. Commercial banks may be required to hold a minimum amount of assets in a particular sector and/or to stay below maximum interest rates, prices or fees to subsidize a partivular sector. EX: The aualified thrift lender test requires each savings institution to hold at least 65% of its assets in residential mortgages to reain its thrift charter.
Credit Allocation regulation
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prohibits unfair discrimination in lednign. CB's use a standard form to report to their chief regulators the reason for granting or dneying credit. - The cost of comoplying with consumer protectiuon regulations is mainly the cost of producing information
Consumer Protection regulation
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protects investors who use CBs to buy securities or to otherwise access securities markets. - Specifically investor protection regulations protect investors against insider trading, lack of disclosure, malfeasance, and breach of fiduciary responsibilities
Investor protection regulation
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limits the number of CBs in each financial services sector. Regulations can keep competitiors outof protected sectors through high entry fees, entry restrictions and restrictions on activities that may be pursued under a charter.
Entry and chartering regulation
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- Over the years US banks have been subject to many restirctions on their products and geographic activities. - US CBs have always been heavily regulated, especially when compared tothe universal FIs of Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. - Early regulation sough to separate commercial banking from investment banking
Regulatory history leading up to the financial services modernization act
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- separate commercial and investment banking - went largely unchallenged until the early 60s when CBs began asking for and rec'g permission to UW municipal revenue bonds, commercial paper and morgage backed securities; act as discount brokers and advise on mutual funds. - in 1987 the fed let CB holding companies establish separate section 20 affiliates - 1997 the Fed and the OCC broadened the activities bank holding companies were allowed to pursue
Glass Steagall Act
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in 1999, repealed the Glass Steagall Act barriers between commercial banking and investment banking. - let banks pursue insurance activities and insurers to offer banking services through financial services holding companies
Financial Services Modernization Act
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- banks were heavily restricted in their insurance activities - National banks could only offer limited types of insurance, and could only act as agents in small towns (under 5K population) - Bank holding companies and state chartered banks were also very restricted in their insurance activities - most banks could offer annuities
Banks before 1999
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Bank regulators regulate the banking activites and state insurance regulators regulate the insurance activities - Financial services holding companies are functionally regulated
Fuctionally regulated
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is a bank divested of either its commercial loans or its demand deposits.
Nonbank bank
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restricts commercial firms' acquisition of banks. - Commercial firms that acquire bank subsidiaries turn them into nonbank banks to meet the demands fo the Act while also entering into commercial banking activities - The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 lets commercail banks owned by financial swervies holding companies take a controlling interest in nonfinancial enterprises, in some cases
the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956
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- 100 years ago most banks were unit banks, with just one office. - As banks began to grow and form branches some states restricted the number of intrastate branches a bank could have. - By 1977 only 6 states still restricted intrastate branching
Intrastate banking
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- prevented any US banks from branching across state lines. - banks established multibank holding companies (parent companies that own more than one banking subsidiary) to get around the act.
The McFadden Act (1927, amended in 1933)
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closed a few interstate-banking loopholes, but banks got around those by establishing one-bank holding companies (parent companies tha town one bank subsidiary and other nonbank subsidiaries) with nonbank subsidiaries in other states
The 1956 Douglas Amendment
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closed the loophole
1970 Bank Holding Compnay Act Amendments
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allowed US and foreign banks to branch interstate, generally through acquisitions and mergers, making full interstate banking a reality in these US
The Riegle Neal Act (1994)
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The FDIC was created in 1933 to regulate the US financial system. It worked well until the 1980's when bank failures began toincrease draining the FDIC fund
History of guarantee funds
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restructured the bank insurance fund. The funds finances have improved since then and bank failures are down again.
The FDIC improvement Act (1991)
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was created to insure savings institutions' deposits. In the 80s and increase in S&L failures depleted the fund so much that the FSLIC adopted a policy of forbearance toward failing savings instituations because it couldn't afford to close them.
The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (1934)
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restructured the fund, renamed is SAIF and placed is under FDIC control
The Financial INstitutions Reform, REcovery, and Enforcement Act (1989)
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1. merginng the BIF and SAIF into a Deposit INsurance Fund 2. indexing deposit insurance coverae levels to inflation 3. replacing the minimum reserve ratio with a ratio ranging from 1.0 to 1.5 % AND 4. charging regular premiums for all risks
The 2001 FDIC proposal for Deposit Insurance Reform suggested
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to reduce the moral hazard of deposit insruance - Penalizing FIs for investing in high-risk assets enourages them to reduce their risks.
Deposit Insurance Premiums Ought to be Risk-based
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regulators impose minimum liquid asset reserve requirements, which vary according to the type, scope and country of the commercial bank
Balance Sheet regulations: Commercial Bank liquidity
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