French Liquidity Support through the Societe de Financement de l'Economie (SFEF) (France GFC)

Everest Fang ()
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Everest Fang: YPFS, Yale School of Management, https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal-of-financial-crises/

Journal of Financial Crises, 2020, vol. 2, issue 3, 681-698

Abstract: After the collapse of the Lehman Brothers in September 2008, financial panic and uncertainty intensified in Europe. In France, banks faced a widespread confidence crisis driven by fear that they were exposed to the US subprime market. In response, on October 13, 2008, the French government passed the "loi de finances rectificative pour le financement de I'economie." This provided for the establishment of the Societe de Financement de l'Economie Francaise (SFEF), a special purpose vehicle (SPV) jointly owned by the State and a group of banks and responsible for refinancing major French credit institutions. The SFEF raised funds on the international market and used the proceeds to provide collateralized loans to major credit institutions. SFEF debt was guaranteed by the French government. The SFEF was active from October 2008 to September 2009 and provided approximately EUR77 billion in funding to a group of institutions that included the vast majority of the major French banks. In September 2009, the Caisse de Refinancement de l'Habitat, a French credit institution specifically focused on housing finance, took over the SFEF's outstanding debt management.

Keywords: Societe de Financement de l'Economie Francaise (SFEF); State Guarantee (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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