A Principle for Forward-Looking Monitoring of Financial Intermediation: Follow the Banks!

Nicola Cetorelli

No 20120723b, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: In the previous posts in this series on the evolution of banks and financial intermediaries, my colleagues and I considered the extent to which banks still play a central role in financial intermediation, given the rise of the shadow banking system. There’s no arguing that financial intermediation has grown in complexity. And there’s also little doubt that the balance sheet of banks is not as representative of financial intermediation activity, and the associated risks, as it once was. Yet as we’ve argued, regulated bank entities have remained very much involved in virtually every aspect of modern financial intermediation, either directly or indirectly providing support to other entities that themselves operate more in the regulatory shadow. I suggest in this post that the insights from the series can be relevant to the design of modern regulation as well.

Keywords: Financial innovation; Bank evolution; Financial intermediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-07-23
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