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... www.frbatlanta.org Federal Reserve Bank of Boston www.bos.frb.org Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago www.chicagofed.org Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland www.clevelandfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ... monetary policy and oversees the activities of Reserve banks. Board oF governors making sense OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE 3 THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM isit a Federal Reserve bank, and you’ll see that ... halfway through! Now that you know who we are at the Federal Reserve 1) the Board of Governors, as the federal government agency; 2) the Reserve banks, as the operational arms; and 3) the...

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... of the Treasury Making Home Affordable MHA HAMP, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Housing Administration FHA HAMP, the Department of Veteran Affairs VA HAMP, the Department ... there is no more recent appraisal or BPO available since the origination of the loan, the estimated value of the home at the time of error will be based on the estimated value of the home at ... Framework Approach 1. What is the purpose of the Financial Remediation Framework? The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...

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... variables to one another. Sensitivity analysis can also help to assess a combined impact on a banking organization of several variables, parameters, factors, or drivers. For example, a banking ... banking organization’s capital position, including regulatory and other capital ratios. There should also be consideration of the impact on the banking organization’s allowance for loan and ... given greater or lesser weight, analyze the combined impact of its tests, and then evaluate potential courses of action based on that analysis. A banking organization may decide to maintain its...

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... BIS WorkingPapersbyBorioandZhu(2008),Gambacorta(2009),Disyatat(2010)andAltunbasetal (2010)allprovideevidence of the importance of whattheycall the “risktakingchannel” of the transmissionmechanism of monetarypolicy 91 .Tobias ... Germany after reunification, Japan after the “bubble”, South East Asia after the Asian crisis, and the US after the TMT crash of the early 2000’s.  In effect, a secular increaseinglobalsupplywasmetby a decreaseinglobaldemandwith the predictableresult of reducing ... shadow banking.Finally,supposethatcentralbankpurchases of governmentpaperare a responseto a marketdriven“run”thatcouldbecomeselffulfilling 120 .Isthisnotexactly the kind of situation  115 Inmid2012,somecommentatorssuggested the ECBshouldstartpayingnegativeinterestratesonreserves heldat the ECB. The initialECBresistancetothissuggestionwasbasedinpartonthisconcern.Anotherworry, arisingfromrecentDanishexperience,wasthatbankswouldthenhavetorecouplosses byraisingratesonloans. Inthisway,monetaryeasingmightprovecontractionary. 116 Leijonhufvud(2009)makes the relatedpointthat,inchoosingwhotosupportandwhonot,centralbanksare makingchoiceswithdistributionalimplications.Issues of distributionfallmorenormallyin the realm of politicsand willattract the attention of politicians. 117 Hanoun(2011)expressesconcernthat the focus of centralbanksonpricestabilitywillbedilutedbyfinancial dominance,fiscaldominanceandalsoexchangeratedominance.Thislastconcernrefersto the “fear of floating”, referredtoabove,thathasextended the creditdrivenproblemsin the AMEsto the EMEsaswell. 118 The centralbanks of manycountrieshaveoperatedwithnegativecapitalfordecades;e.g.,Chile,Jamaicaand others. 119 Thisauthor,andBorioandothersat the BIS,havebeenmakingthispointformanyyears. The practical implicationisthatpricestabilitytargetsshouldextendover a horizonlongenoughtoallowimbalancestounwind. Thus,toleanagainst a creditbubbleistoleanagainstsomecombination of possiblenearterminflationary pressuresand/or the possibility of excessivedisinflation(orevendeflation)over the mediumterm.SeeWhite (200 6a) .Operationally,thisimpliesthatseparating the pricestabilityfunctionfrom the financialstabilityfunction atcentralbanksislogicallywrong.SeeWhite(201 2a) .Issing(2012)remindsus,however, of someimportant politicalconsiderationsthatcouldqualifythisconclusion. 120 The problemisone of multipleequilibria. A sovereignmaybesolventgivenreasonableinterestrates,butnotif a runpushesupratesbeyondsomelimit. ...

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... however, the Federal Reserve increased the scale of its liquidity facilities substantially in the face of rapidly deteriorating financial conditions. The size of the new programs quickly became larger ... level of total reserves are not under the control of the central bank, such as payments into and out of the Treasury’s account at the central bank or changes in the amount of currency held by the ... institution’s legal reserve requirement. These funds are held either as balances on deposit at the Federal Reserve or as cash in the bank’s vault or ATMs. Reserves that are applied toward an institution’s...

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... registration of the fund’s shares and the delivery of a prospectus; the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which regulates the trading, purchase and sale of fund shares and establishes antifraud standards ... considered assets of the investment adviser, custodian, or any other fund. No creditor of the adviser or custodian will have a claim against the assets of the fund, and gains or losses of the fund cannot ... requirements. 32 Advisers also owe a fiduciary duty to each fund they advise, meaning that they have a fundamental legal obligation to act in the best interests of the fund pursuant to a duty of undivided...

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... Venture Banks (JV Bank Name) (Vietnamese and Foreign JV Bank Partners) Indovina Bank Vietinbank & Cathay United Bank (Taiwan) VinaSiam Bank Agribank & Siam Commercial Bank (Thailand) ... privatizing financial activities. Prior to 1990, the SBV functioned as both a central bank and a commercial bank. The 1990 Ordinance on the State Bank of Vietnam separated the central bank’s ... The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pleased to announce that registration is open for our sympo- sium on Asian banking and finance, entitled Asian Financial Institutions: Risk Management...

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... operational capability and reliability of each rating organization. Included within this assessment are: (1) the organizational structure of the rating organization; (2) the rating organization’s ... size of the issuance and the nature of the instrument being rated. They typically include both a fee for the initial rating and an annual maintenance fee. The fees are not regulated and vary ... of ratings and rationale for the ratings assigned; (3) publicized standards to provide the users of the ratings with sufficient information to fairly and accurately evaluate the nature of assigned...

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... central banks of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States (USA), using GMM, and found that central banks can be described by an optimal inflation targeting regime with significant ... coefficients of each variable in the monetary rule can be construed as the percentage variation in the interest rate due to a 1% change in the respective explanatory variable. Thus, an increase of one ... restriction that the sum of the lagged inflation parameters and of the fluctuation in the exchange rate should be equal to 1. This means that any exchange rate depreciation is totally transferred...

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... to AIG, and other Fed assets. Liabilities: Other—Reverse repos, Treasury cash holdings, and deposits with Federal Reserve Banks other than reserve balances and excluding the Supplementary Financing ... market is practically unchanged since the August 10 FOMC meeting. The fed funds futures markets expect a rate increase around late 2011 or early 2012. As of September 22, the ... billion for the week ended September 15. Bank reserve balances decreased $118 billion, offset by a $110 billion increase in Treasury deposits with Federal Reserve banks (part of “Other”)....

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... C&AG Audits of Departmental Accounts other than the Appropriation Accounts and the Finance Accounts Apart from the Appropriation Accounts and the Finance Accounts, the C&AG audits a ... accounts of funds under the control of Ministers or Departments; and the accounts of the transactions in the State of the FEOGA Fund. 1.14 Other C&AG Audits The C&AG also audits the accounts ... regard to the conditions of the grant; the submission of accounts as well as being satisfied that accounting systems and organisational arrangements of the grantee are adequate to ensure the...

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... 1999;฀ Vasconcellos฀1997). The subway฀system฀can฀barely฀handle a fraction of the demand,฀ and฀an฀efficient฀freeway฀system฀remains a distant฀dream. The urban฀layout฀resembles฀ Los฀Angeles,฀because of its฀sheer฀horizontal฀breadth,฀and฀Manhattan,฀because of its฀ dense฀clusters of skyscrapers.฀But the crazy-quilt฀pattern of the clogged฀and฀narrow฀ streetscape฀makes฀navigating the urban฀landscape a sheer฀nightmare฀(Godfrey฀1999;฀ Romero฀200 0a; ฀Romero฀2000b). São฀Paulo฀was฀not฀always a city of such฀extremes.฀In฀1960,฀before฀an฀estimated฀46฀ million฀Brazilians฀left฀rural฀areas฀for฀cities฀in a four-decade฀migration฀that฀was฀one of the largest of the twentieth฀century,฀São฀Paulo฀was a relatively฀calm,฀sedate฀city of 3.7฀ million฀residents฀with฀income฀disparities฀not฀nearly฀as฀skewed฀as฀they฀have฀become.฀An฀ extensive฀network of trolleys฀and฀buses,฀along฀with฀only฀164,000฀private฀automobiles,฀ provided฀ ... 1999;฀ Vasconcellos฀1997). The subway฀system฀can฀barely฀handle a fraction of the demand,฀ and฀an฀efficient฀freeway฀system฀remains a distant฀dream. The urban฀layout฀resembles฀ Los฀Angeles,฀because of its฀sheer฀horizontal฀breadth,฀and฀Manhattan,฀because of its฀ dense฀clusters of skyscrapers.฀But the crazy-quilt฀pattern of the clogged฀and฀narrow฀ streetscape฀makes฀navigating the urban฀landscape a sheer฀nightmare฀(Godfrey฀1999;฀ Romero฀200 0a; ฀Romero฀2000b). São฀Paulo฀was฀not฀always a city of such฀extremes.฀In฀1960,฀before฀an฀estimated฀46฀ million฀Brazilians฀left฀rural฀areas฀for฀cities฀in a four-decade฀migration฀that฀was฀one of the largest of the twentieth฀century,฀São฀Paulo฀was a relatively฀calm,฀sedate฀city of 3.7฀ million฀residents฀with฀income฀disparities฀not฀nearly฀as฀skewed฀as฀they฀have฀become.฀An฀ extensive฀network of trolleys฀and฀buses,฀along฀with฀only฀164,000฀private฀automobiles,฀ provided฀ ... can฀ afford฀it฀spend฀an฀estimated฀R50฀billion฀[$4.8฀billion] a year฀on฀private฀security,฀such฀ as฀perimeter฀barricades,฀armed฀guards฀and฀alarm฀systems, a figure฀‘over฀and฀above the high฀insurance฀costs’฀and฀what฀various฀state฀agencies฀already฀spend฀on฀‘maintaining฀ what฀passes฀for฀law฀and฀order฀in the country’. The fear of crime฀has฀driven฀residents฀ of middle-class฀neighbourhoods฀to฀turn฀their฀homes฀into฀bunker-like฀fortresses,฀an฀ expense฀that฀has฀drained฀many฀households of discretionary฀spending.฀Almost฀ a fifth฀ of ...

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... that otherwise may have to switch between federal and state registration frequently because of, for example, the volatility of the market values of the assets they manage. Rule 20 3A- 1 (a) , as amended, ... register with the Commission is appropriate in accordance with the purposes of the Advisers Act. Advisers Act section 20 3A( a)(2)(B)(ii), as amended by the Dodd-Frank Act. -20- management” in ... should engage in an evaluation of each state’s adviser examination program. 157 We do not believe that the alternatives suggested are practical or appropriate. As we explained in the Implementing...

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... reect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Abstract The rapid growth of the market-based nancial system since the mid-1980s changed the nature of ... banks, finance companies, broker-dealers and asset managers and their on- and off-balance sheet activities—all under the umbrella of financial holding companies. Finally, the “external” shadow ... is a backstop of loan origination and warehousing; TALF is a backstop of ABS issuance; TSLF and Maiden Lane, LLC are backstops of the system's securities warehouses (broadly speaking); Maiden...

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... support of FHLB liabilities by the US Government. The secured nature of an advance, as well as the lien the Federal Home Loan Bank has on the other assets of the borrower, means that the claims of ... in the United States rehypothecation is subject to a 140% cap. The re-hypothecation in the U.K. subsidiary of repo collateral arguably greatly exacerbated the impact of the collapse of Lehman ... on the asset and liability side of the balance sheet in contrast to traditional commercial banks, that have largely non-tradable loans on the asset side and nontradable deposits on the liability...

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