Always Look on the Bright Side? Central Counterparties and Interbank Markets during the Financial Crisis

Author(s):  
Massimiliano Affinito ◽  
GianMatteo Piazza

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dien Giau Bui ◽  
Yan-Shing Chen ◽  
Hsing-Hua Hsu ◽  
Chih-Yung Lin


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Alvarez

The international banking crisis that began in 2007 has brought the relationship between international banking activities and financial crises to the forefront. The growing reliance on foreign interbank funding by domestic banks has been recognized as a crucial factor in explaining the banking and sovereign debt crisis currently affecting several peripheral European countries. This article shows that the link between financial crisis and international interbank lending is not a new phenomenon; a similar trend can be observed in the Mexican banking sector during the run-up to its 1982 debt crisis. I explore the international activities of Mexican commercial banks in the years preceding the country's default and demonstrate that they became involved in international lending which was funded largely through heavy short-term interbank foreign borrowing. I provide new archival evidence which shows that in intermediating foreign finance with local public and private borrowers, Mexican banks incurred maturity, interest rate and currency mismatches and dangerously increased their risk position. This article provides insights for understanding the Mexican debt crisis as closely intertwined with problems in the domestic banking sector, which were, in turn, linked to its involvement in the international financial system.



Author(s):  
Yan-Shing Chen ◽  
Yehning Chen ◽  
Iftekhar Hasan ◽  
Chih-Yung Lin




2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Shing Chen ◽  
Yehning Chen ◽  
Iftekhar Hasan ◽  
Chih-Yung Lin


2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 128-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Shing Chen ◽  
Yehning Chen ◽  
Chih-Yung Lin ◽  
Zenu Sharma


2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Miguel de Lascurain M. ◽  

The financial crisis has brought the problems of regulatory failure and unbridled counterparty risk to the forefront in financial discussions. In the last decade, central counterparties have been created in order to face those insidious problems. In Mexico, both the stock and the derivatives markets have central counterparties, but the money market has not. This paper addresses the issue of creating a central counterparty for the Mexican money market. Recommendations that must be followed in the design and the management of risk of a central counterparty, given by international regulatory institutions, are presented in this study. Also, two different conceptual designs for a central counterparty, appropriate for the Mexican market, are proposed. Final conclusions support the creation of a new central counterparty for the Mexican money market.



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