ProdukHukum BankIndonesia

Bank Indonesia
7th annual international Seminar

Expanding the perimeter of
financial regulation :
focusing on systemic risk
Philippe Mongars
Deputy head of Financial Stability Directorate
26/08/2009

Many factors played a role in the financial crisis
Inadequate implementation of the OTD approach to credit extension :
from know your customer to passing on risk and generating fees. An
original sin in credit risk management?
Risk-management weaknesses at large global financial institutions that
created and held complex credit products. (risk spreading proved to be
much less extensive than many believed)

Lessons for Risk Management at firms
Risk identification and measurement, valuation, liquidity and governance


Lessons for regulators
Would new risk management practices at firms suffice?

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1. Changes in risk management practices required
fall into 4 categories

risk identification and measurement
valuation issues
liquidity management
governance and misaligned incentives
2.Supervisory responses

Systemic risk measurement
Systemic risk mitigation

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Risk identification and measurement
Risk management process
Credit terms
IT capabilities
Risk metrics
Stress tests,
Liquidity funding
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1 & 3 Chan-Lau, Espinosa and Solé (2009)
2 Giesecke and Kim (2009)
4 Segoviano & Goodhart (2009)
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Systemic risk management – some academic proposals
Kashyap et al. (2008)

Asharya et al. (2008)

Perotti-Suarez (2009)

Nature of the
insurance

Bank capital

Regulated institutions’ capital Liquidity (possibly capital)
for institutions have access
to public guarantee
schemes

Participation
Insurer

Optional
Private

Mandatory
Public + private

Mandatory
International liquidity
insurance fund

Price
calculation

To be determined by the
institution

Market measure of the
systemic risk of the
institution

A proportion of short term
marketable debt

Trigger for
compensation

Cumulative losses over the
Cumulative losses in the
preceding 4 quarters exceeding a financial system (or the
predefined amount
national economy)
exceeding a predefined
amount set by regulators

Compensation A share of the aggregate system
amount
losses in a range of 100-200 Bn
USD), when losses exceed that
level, the amount is capped

Help meet the target of 8%
solvency ratio

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Aggregate liquidity
squeeze in the interbank
market, to be determined
by supervisors
Undefined

Institutional challenges
Best positioned to monitor systemic risk = Central banks
Should that body be independent or not?
On going discussion across jurisdictions to set up institutions to perform this
duty with possible different approach : US approach vs. EU approach ;
The setting up of the European Systemic Risk Council
Furthermore, in an integrated financial system, judgments have to be made on
a worldwide basis.

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Combining the two components of macrosupervision (systemic and macroeconomic) with
the two approaches (automatic and discretionary) produces an interesting classification,
which is presented in the table below:

Source : Banque de France, JP Landau
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Thank you
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