Bankers Without Borders? Implications of Ring-Fencing for European Cross-Border Banks

Yulia Makarova, Anna O. Ilyina, Christian Schmieder () and Eugenio Martin Cerutti

No 10/247, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper presents a stylized analysis of the effects of ring-fencing (i.e., different restrictions on cross-border transfers of excess profits and/or capital between a parent bank and its subsidiaries located in different jurisdictions) on cross-border banks. Using a sample of 25 large European banking groups with subsidiaries in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CESE), we analyze the impact of a CESE credit shock on the capital buffers needed by the sample banking groups under different forms of ring-fencing. Our simulations show that under stricter forms of ring-fencing, sample banking groups have substantially larger needs for capital buffers at the parent and/or subsidiary level than under less strict (or in the absence of any) ring-fencing.

Keywords: Eastern Europe; Banks; Capital; Credit risk; International banking; Regional shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2010-11-01
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