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U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity

Ricardo Correa, Wenxin Du and Gordon Liao

No 1289, International Finance Discussion Papers from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: We characterize how U.S. global systemically important banks (GSIBs) supply short-term dollar liquidity in repo and foreign exchange swap markets in the post-Global Financial Crisis regulatory environment and serve as the "lenders-of-second-to-last-resort". Using daily supervisory bank balance sheet information, we find that U.S. GSIBs modestly increase their dollar liquidity provision in response to dollar funding shortages, particularly at period-ends, when the U.S. Treasury General Account balance increases, and during the balance sheet taper of the Federal Reserve. The increase in the dollar liquidity provision is mainly financed by reducing excess reserve balances at the Federal Reserve. Intra-firm transfers between depository institutions and broker-dealer subsidiaries within the same bank holding company are crucial to this type of "reserve-draining" intermediation. Finally, we discuss factors that contributed to the repo spike in September 2019 and the subseque nt response of U.S. GSIBs to recent policy interventions by the Federal Reserve.

Keywords: Liquidity; Global banks; Repos; Reserves; Covered interest rate parity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E40 F30 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-fmk, nep-ifn, nep-mac and nep-mon
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DOI: 10.17016/IFDP.2020.1289

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