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1. 2011
Due to the enormous cost, both financial and reputational, of the increased
need for public money to be used to support the largest “too big to fail”
banks and others, the UK authorities have decided that they need to have
better control over any possible future institution that falls upon hard times.
Lee Werrell
CEI Compliance Limited
2. A Tale of Two Situations FSA Recovery & Resolution Plans
Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3
So who will qualify as members of this elite club?................................................................ 5
Where next?............................................................................................................................. 6
Recovery Plans – what is needed? .................................................................................... 8
Resolution Planning – what is needed? ........................................................................... 9
Bailing In.............................................................................................................................. 11
The Financial Services Authority invites comments on this Consultation Paper. Comments should
be sent by 9 November 2011.
Full Text of the Consultation Paper CP 11/16 can be downloaded as a PDF document from
here
Comments may be sent by electronic submission using the form on the FSA’s website
at: www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Library/Policy/CP/2011/cp11_16_response.shtml.
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3. A Tale of Two Situations FSA Recovery & Resolution Plans
Introduction
Following the demise of some of the most prestigious financial institutions in recent history, due to
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significant financial institutions in the UK have been highlighted. Due to the enormous cost,
both financial and reputational, of the increased need for public money to be used to support
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realisation that there was a further need, an obvious hole in previous planning. Clearly they
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institutions without needing to resort to taxpayer support. Not only were the authorities
keen see the potential plans that firms would use on the rocky road to the summit of
breakdown and insolvency (predicted by many pundits in the press) but they were keen to
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stress.
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firm come under severe stress. This is work that should be conducted in
detail, providing a menu of options under differing situations and the
likely solutions that may be available. Secondly, “Resolution planning”
requires firms to submit detailed information about their business and
operational structure in the form of a Resolution Pack. The authorities will then write their
resolution plans for them, so that they know precisely what, how and when to instruct the
Insolvency Practitioner (IP) to do if the time comes to wind down the firm.
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enable these recovery options to be identified and mobilised quickly and effectively;
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organisation and structures to enable the authorities to ensure that an orderly
resolution could be carried out by the authorities should it become necessary.
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4. A Tale of Two Situations FSA Recovery & Resolution Plans
Additionally this is likely to be of interest to policymakers and practitioners involved in the
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before the PRA takes on responsibility for supervising the relevant firms.
Although welcoming discussion, the formal consultation on rules for RRPs and for the CMA
proposals found in the ‘CASS Resolution Pack’ (CASS RP). There are a number of documents
which have been published alongside this paper:
The proposed Handbook text for RRPs
the CASS RP, (see Annex 4)
a guidance pack on how firms should complete their RRPs, and;
several other annexes including the cost benefit analysis and compatibility statement.
So what makes a good recovery
plan?
The FSA state that a Recovery Plan must
be developed and maintained by the
firm and should have the following
features:
sufficient number of credible
options to cope with a range of
scenarios, including both
idiosyncratic and market-wide
stress; (yes, there could well be
overlap from the ICAAP document
but remember an ICAAP stress test is an immediate and one off stress, whereas a
recovery plan is more like a menu of options and mini-events may have to play
out for further events to take place).
options that address capital shortfalls and liquidity pressures and which should
aim to return the firm to a stable and sustainable position (this can include “bail
in” which is explained further in Chapter 11 of the CP); and
appropriate governance processes, including intervention conditions and
procedures, to ensure timely implementation of recovery options in a range of
stress situations (which may involve multiple crisis team occurrences in series or
parallel).
It is very likely in the early iterations that cases are considered where the firm does not
currently have credible options to enable it to recover from extreme stress situations. In such
cases the Recovery Plan should indicate the preparation measures (and a timetable for such
measures) that the firm will take to create such options.
There are obviously going to be cases of globally significant financial institutions (G-SIFIs), and
in these events the Recovery Plan will also assist discussions among international regulators
led by the home authority using the Crisis Management Groups (CMGs), established under
the guidance of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Recovery Plans will help to reassure host
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regulators that the firm could deal effectively with difficult circumstances. This cooperation
should help to discourage host and home regulators from taking pre-emptive actions to
protect national interests which could be to the detriment of wider global interests.
When things go awry - Resolution planning
Within the Resolution pack is a host of analysis and information identifiers that will help the
UK authorities to prepare a resolution plan with their specific aims:
to ensure that resolution can be carried out without public financial support;
to seek to minimise the impact on financial stability;
to seek to minimise the effect on depositors and consumers;
to allow decisions and actions to be taken and executed in a short space
of time (for example, over a ‘resolution weekend’);
to identify those economic functions for which continuity is critical to the
economy or financial system;
to identify those economic functions which would need to be wound up
in an orderly fashion;
to identify and consider ways of removing barriers which may prevent
critical functions being resolved successfully;
to allow a resolution that separates the identified critical economic
functions from non-critical activities which could be allowed to fail; and
to enhance international cooperation and crisis management planning
between international regulators for G-SIFIs.
With full analysis and the information supplied in the pack will allow the authorities to commit
firms that fail to meet threshold conditions into resolution smoothly and swiftly with minimal
impact on the financial system, regardless of the size or complexity of the firm.
So who will qualify as members of this
elite club?
The current basis is that the FSA’s RRP requirements
will apply to deposit takers in the first instance and
also significant investment firms, in particular, to full
scope BIPRU 730k investment firms with assets
exceeding at least £15 billion on its last accounting
reference date.
Be warned however, that investment firms that could present significant risks either to the
stability of the financial system or to one or more other PRA-regulated entities within their
group should be subject to the same RRP requirements as deposit-takers, including
supporting their orderly resolution under investment bank Special Administration Regime. We
expect such firms will be designated as being subject to regulation by the PRA, but the exact
scope of PRA regulation is still being determined.
So for now, the current discussion is around the firms that are relating to CMA (CASS RP) apply to
all firms subject to CASS 6 or 7 due to their holding of investment business client money or
custody assets. See Chapter 6 for more detail.
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Also there is the likelihood of international impacts and given the financial and operational
interdependencies often found in most financial services group, consideration will be
expected, when providing resolution analysis to the authorities, how all significant members of
the group (both regulated and unregulated) could be resolved. Recovery Plans should similarly
address all significant parts of a group.
Where next?
On the 12 th September 2011 the Independent Commissions of Banking (ICB) published its final
report recommending far-reaching changes to all banks headquartered in the U.K.
In the wake of the global economic crisis of 2008, the 5-member ICB was charged with the
responsibility of understanding how stable and competitive the financial system is in the U.K., and
for suggesting how to handle banks that were “too big to fall”.
In April this year, the ICB expressed the need to implement measures which would make banks
capable of absorbing losses while curbing their incentives for excessive risk-taking. The final report
just builds on the draft proposal to achieve this.
The ICB report itemises a set of reasons justifying the need to
separate a bank’s retail and investment banking operations. The
list includes reducing the risks on retail customers from volatile
investment banking businesses, making it easier and less
expensive to bail out banks in trouble and aiding the process of
monitoring banks by introducing more transparency.
The relief for U.K. banks is that the ICB report stops short of
recommending a complete separation of investment banking
and retail operations. It instead proposes steps to ring-fence
various essential retail banking functions in banks, defining what
activities should be or should not be permitted inside the ring-fence.
And the ICB report acknowledges the impact of this ring-fencing on the banks. The direct operational
costs for banks are expected to increase due to the proposed changes with additional increases to
the cost of capital and funding for banks.
The increased capital requirements for banks would further push costs higher. Estimates peg the
additional costs to the country’s biggest banks to be £7 billion (U$11 billion) annually.
With direct and far reaching consequences and a recommendation to ensure proposed changes are
in place by 2019, the ICB has shaken up the U.K. banking sector. When the changes are called into
law would determine how the banks respond – with drastic measures like shifting headquarters also
not ruled out completely.
The next development for RRPs is the G20 meeting in November. Then there will be further
consultation document in 1Q12 and final rules are expected in 2Q12 with earliest
submissions around June 2012. RRPs complement existing policies with respect to capital,
liquidity and stress testing. They are also consistent with the proposed PRA Proactive
Intervention Framework (PIF).
As I mentioned earlier, the aim is for the RRP policy set out in the CP is to come into effect
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during the first quarter of 2012. In due course, RRP policy as it relates to deposit-takers and
systemic investment firms will fall under the remit of the Prudential Regulation Authority
(PRA).
The CASS RP policy is expected to come into effect six months after the publication of the
relevant PS. As stated firms in scope for the CASS RP will include some firms that are also in
scope for the rest of the RRP policy and some that are not.
The Bank of England and FSA set out in the joint paper, The Bank of England, Prudential
Regulation Authority: Our approach to banking supervision , the PRA’s role will be to
contribute to the promotion of the stability of the UK financial system. It will have a single
objective – to promote the safety and soundness of regulated firms, including seeking to
minimise any adverse effects of firm failure on the UK financial system and by ensuring that
firms carry on their business in a way that avoids adverse effects on the system. As recognised
in its statutory objective, it will not be the PRA’s role to ensure that no PRA-authorised firm
fails.
RRP and existing capital stress-testing links
So what’s wrong with the ICAAP/ILAS stress testing? There are obviously strong links between the
Recovery Plan and the existing capital and liquidity stress testing requirements, given their
common objective towards maintaining sufficient financial resources for a going-concern firm in
a stressed environment. The FSA is keen for any firm not to try and re-invent the wheel.
Firms may find that their existing capital and liquidity stress testing can serve as useful inputs
in developing their Recovery Plans. However, the Recovery Plan will extend further by asking
firms to plan for additional actions when the impact or the speed of a crisis turns out to be
more severe than the scenarios they had projected in their stress tests. A menu of items
including triggers and mitigating actions, set processes at certain times will be required to
show all avenues of recovery had been not only mapped and travelled down, but also which
of the kerbstones had been painted.
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RRP and reverse stress-testing links
The FSA’s policy on reverse stress testing used as a risk tool, requires a firm to explicitly identify
and assess the scenarios that are most likely to cause its business model to fail, after
considering existing, realistic management actions. Where those tests reveal that business failure
will occur within the firm’s existing risk appetite or tolerance, the firm will be required to
identify and adopt effective arrangements, processes, systems or other measures to try to
prevent those risks from crystallising.
Given the roles of reverse stress testing in improving a firm’s contingency planning as well as
in preventing it from failing, there are clear links between reverse stress testing and the RRP
requirements. In practice, the development of a firm’s RRP will inform its reverse stress
testing planning and vice-versa, providing the glue to connect all the risk reporting tools
together.
Recovery Plans – what is needed?
Briefly, recovery plans;
are developed and maintained by the firms and the authorities will
review their adequacy
should include a robust menu of options to deal with a range of stressed
situations
should have unambiguous ‘triggers’ which, when breached, will create
a strong presumption that the plan will be activated
should be reviewed at least annually and approved by the board.
The purpose of a Recovery Plan is to enable a firm to plan how they would try to recover
from severely adverse conditions that could cause their failure. It will set out in advance a
firm’s ‘menu of options’ for dealing with a range of severe stress events. These stresses may be
caused by an idiosyncratic problem, a market-wide problem or a combination of both, and
extend beyond the firm’s current regulatory stress testing scenarios and remedies.
Firms will be required to produce a Recovery Plan that can be readily implemented when
necessary and that is integrated within its risk management framework and processes.
Firms will need to ensure the necessary measures and preparations are in place in advance for
the plan to be effective.
The recovery options need to be material in impact and capable of being executed with
relative ease and in a timely manner.
The proposals cover the following key areas:
governance framework for the Recovery Plan;
key Recovery Plan options;
criteria for assessing recovery options; and
intervention conditions, i.e. a trigger framework.
For a detailed explanation of the expected components of
Recovery Plans, see modules 1 and 2 of the RRP Guide.
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Disposal options
For any Recovery Plan to be considered robust, it is likely to be necessary for firms to
consider radical choices which change the structure of their businesses. These choices are
likely to include, but are not limited to, disposal options for part of a firm’s business or even
selling the firm itself. Although it may be difficult accurately to assess the value of such
options, firms should be able to provide some broad estimates. Consideration of such
options and how they might be executed will form an important part of most Recovery
Plans, particularly those of the larger firms. When considering potential disposal options,
consideration should be given to the long-term viability of the firm post-transaction.
The Resolution Plan is prepared by the authorities based on the Resolution
Pack containing extensive information and analysis provided by the firms.
Modules 3 to 6 of the RRP Guide explain the work that firms must do. For the
Handbook text on Resolution Packs see FINMAR 4.3.
A key part of the firms’ work is a separation or wind-down plan for deposit-
taking and other critical economic functions.
Firms will be expected to identify barriers to resolution and propose
changes to remove those barriers.
The Resolution Pack must be reviewed at least annually and the board will be
responsible for ensuring there are processes in place to produce timely and
accurate data.
The Resolution Pack must be updated on an ongoing basis to reflect any
material developments in a firm’s business.
Resolution Planning – what is needed?
Alternatively, the aim of the Resolution Plan is to provide a clear and detailed strategy
roadmap to resolve a failed firm or even a group in such a manner that minimises the impact
on financial stability without needing to resort to public sector solvency support.
The key element here is that the Resolution Plan is prepared by the UK authorities. However, it
is vital that the authorities have the level of understanding necessary to make the
appropriate decisions. They can only implement an effective action plan when resolution is
imminent; which requires not only the provision of reasonably current information on the
specific business operations, structures and critical economic functions, but also a detailed
resolution analysis prepared by firms.
Effectively the authorities need to be able to form opinions
on the resolvability of each firm. To enable this, firms will
need to provide a very significant level of detail and, in
particular, the authorities will be asking firms to undertake
a ‘separability or wind-down’ analyses in relation to each
of its critical economic functions.
The information and analysis to be supplied by firms is
called the ‘Resolution Pack’.
Economic functions
These refer to the services delivered by a firm and will not always necessarily correspond
directly to legal entities within a firm’s group structure. It may also not be clearly mapped to the
business units operated by the firm. What is required is that firms should explain how the
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economic functions they provide map to the business units through which the group may
organise itself. Consequently a further mapping will be necessary to understand how these
business units map to the legal entity structure of the group.
Typical Economic Functions the financial services sector provides three high-level services to
the real economy:
payment services, to facilitate transactions between agents in the real economy;
intermediation of credit and capital, to allow agents in the real economy to
save, invest and borrow efficiently; and
risk management products and services, to facilitate risk pooling and protect
agents against adverse events.
These high-level services can then be broken down into separate economic functions which
firms perform. For example, (i) current accounts facilitate the provision of payment services;
(ii) mortgage lending contributes to the intermediation of credit; and (iii) market-making
activities contribute to the provision of risk management. Sometimes, an economic function
may support the provision of more than one of the high-level services to the real economy.
Examples of economic functions are as follows:
retail current accounts including overdrafts;
retail savings/time accounts;
retail lending: mortgages/other secured;
retail lending: unsecured personal loans;
retail lending: credit cards issuance and underwriting;
corporate deposits;
corporate lending;
long-term capital investment;
credit card merchant acquiring/services;
payment services;
clearing services;
cash services;
third-party services;
derivatives;
securities financing;
trading portfolio;
equity and debt capital markets;
asset management;
brokerage;
custody services;
prime brokerage and related securities services;
general insurance, re-insurance, underwriting and/or broking services;
life, pensions, investments and annuities
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corporate advisory services; and
research.
Ongoing maintenance of data by firms
A clear signal and an obvious requirement is that it will be important that, while preparing
the initial RRPs, firms plan for their regular maintenance and update. This will surely be a less
onerous task than the initial preparation of the plans and, if systems for capturing and
recording data are properly established, particularly for resolution information, this should
help the firm to provide updated information quickly and efficiently when required.
A firm should review its Recovery Plan at least annually and when it has been through a major
reorganisation, especially when it involves an acquisition or disposal. The plans should also be
refreshed whenever the firm looks likely to encounter a severe stress situation and on request
from the FSA.
Bailing In
What is bail-in?
The term Bail-in is provided in this documentation and it usually refers to a process of internal
recapitalisation that is triggered once a firm has reached the point of non-viability. There is an
automatic Loss imposed on certain of a firm’s direct stakeholders of a firm by a process of
‘bailing-in’, either by writing down their claims or by converting them to equity. As a result, the
firm is recapitalised from within and the need for new capital resources to be provided by the
public sector (i.e. a bail-out) is avoided.
Whilst it all seems a very straightforward arrangement, Bail-in will almost always need to be
accompanied by changes in the firm’s senior management. Coupled with this would be the
adoption of a new business plan that addresses the causes of the firm’s failure. A vital
objective of the bail-in process is to secure the continued existence of at least a part or even
the entire firm on a going concern basis. If this can be done then disruption of services to
customers of the firm should be minimised, while its shareholders and uninsured creditors
are subject to going concern losses rather than the much larger gone concern losses that
they would suffer if the firm went into insolvency or liquidation.
Full details of the Bail-In can be found in Chapter 11 of the CP11/16.
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