The document discusses the history of banking and its role in the 2007-2008 financial crisis. It provides an overview of different types of banks and their functions. It then describes various banking regulations on operations, capital requirements, and how regulators monitor banks. The document notes that banks play a central role in the financial system and that banking crises can exacerbate economic downturns. It outlines several triggers for the 2007-2008 crisis, including the growth of subprime lending and loosening of regulations, and provides a timeline of key events as the crisis unfolded.
1. BANKING AND IMPACT ON
FINANCIAL CRISIS (2007-2008)
PRESENTED BY: SRAVAN BATCHALA
DATE: 09/09/2023
2. CONTENTS
Banking History
Types of Banking
Functions of Bank
Commercial Bank Funds Flow
Banking Regulations
Regulation of Banking Operations
Regulations of Capital
How Regulators Monitor Banks?
Central Role of Banks in Financial Crisis
Trigger of Financial Crisis before 2007-2008
Timing and Key Events in the Financial Crisis 2007-2008
Protest for Government Funding for Banks
References
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3. BANKING HISTORY
Banking is one of the oldest business in the world and it is backbone of most successful economies.
First bank of
United States
(1791- 1811)
Second bank
of United
States (1816-
1836)
“Free Banks”
(1837- 1863)
National
Banks (1863-
1913)
Panic!
(1873,1893,
1907)
Groundwork
(1908-1912)
Federal
reserve (1913-
Present)
• Intent to
facilitate
governmen
t finances
and war
debt
• Vision for
Commercia
l banking
• Introduced
uniform
currency
across all
banks
• Acted as a
second
bank and
clearing
house
• Banks
started
operating
with less
onerous
charter
• More banks
opened
and
circulated
free notes
• Uniformed
national
currency
across US
• Issue
governmen
t printed
bills for war
support
• 1893-
Worst
depression,
depositors
panic to
pull money
caused
systematic
crisis
• Reconsider
centralized
bank
• Emerge as
the Federal
reserve act
of 1913
• Decentraliz
ed central
bank
• Holding
deposits
and serving
as “bankers
bank”
• Developme
nt of
monetary
policy
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4. TYPES OF BANKING
Retail banks
• Offer services to general public and provide services such as checking and
savings accounts, loan and mortgage services, financing for automobiles
and short-term loans
• Examples- TD bank and Citibank
Commercial or
Corporate banks
• Offer services to businesses from small business owners to large
corporations
• Credit services, cash management, commercial real estate, employer
services and trade finance
• JPMorgan and BOA are examples of commercial banks
Investment banks
• Provide corporate client on complex services and financial transactions
such as underwriting and assisting with merger and acquisitions
• Large corporations, pension funds, government and hedge funds are their
major clients
Central banks
• Is an independent institution authorized by government to oversee the
nations money supply and monetary policy
• U.S. Federal Reserve Bank is the central bank of U.S.
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5. FUNCTIONS OF BANK
Functions
of Bank
Primary
functions
Accepting
deposits
Granting
advances
Secondary
functions
Agency
functions
Utility
functions
• Saving deposits
• Fixed deposits
• Current deposits
• Recurring
deposits
• Overdraft
• Cash credit
• Loans
• Discounting of
bills
• Transfer of funds
• Periodic payments
• Collections of
cheques
• Portfolio
management
• Other agency
functions
• Drafts
• Lockets
• Underwriting
• Project reports
• Social welfare
programs
• Other utility
functions
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6. COMMERCIAL BANK FUNDS FLOW
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Bank
Transaction deposits
Savings deposits
Time deposits
Money market deposit
accounts
Federal funds purchased
Borrowing from Federal
reserve banks
Repurchase agreements
Eurodollar borrowings
Bonds issued by bank
Bank capital
Cash reserves
Bank loans- Consumer,
business, real estate
Investments in securities
Federal funds sold
Repurchase agreements
Eurodollar loans
Fixed assets
Proprietary trading
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7. BANKING REGULATIONS-1
Banking functions are regulated to ensure safety of Financial system and maintain public confidence. It prevent banks
from taking excessive risks that could cause them fail
Regulatory
structure
• A charter is required from either a state government or federal government to open a
commercial bank in US
• Bank that obtain state charter is considered as state bank and bank that obtain federal charter
is considered as national bank
• National banks are regulated by Comptroller of the Currency and State banks are regulated
by respective state agency
• Banks that are insured by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are also regulated
by FDIC.
• National banks must be members of Federal reserve and must hold FDIC
• Comptroller of the Currency is responsible for conducting periodic evaluations of national
banks
• FDIC holds the same responsibility as Comptroller of the Currency for conducting periodic
evaluations
• Commercial banks can be either independently owned or owned by a bank holding
company (BHC)
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8. REGULATIONS OF BANK OPERATIONS
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Regulation
of Bank
Operations
Regulation of Deposit
Insurance
Regulation of Deposits
Regulation of Bank loans
Insurance limits
Risk based deposit premiums
Deposit Insurance Fund
Bank deposit insurance reserves
DIDMCA
Garn-St. Germain Act
Interstate banking Act
Regulation of Highly leveraged transactions
Regulation of Foreign loans
Regulations of loans to single borrower
Regulations of loans to community
9. REGULATIONS OF BANK OPERATIONS
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Regulation
of Bank
Operations
Regulation of off-balance
sheet transactions
Regulation of Accounting
process
Regulation of security
services
• Regulate banks on excessive involvement of
off-balance sheet activities
• It includes like letter of credit, interest rate
swaps and derivatives
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in 2002 to
ensure more transparent process for financial
reporting
• Improve internal control and centralized
database of financial transactions
• Banking act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act)
separated banking and security activities
• Financial Services Modernization Act (Gramm-
Leach-Bliley Act) repealed Glass- Steagall Act
and allows bank holding companies to engage
in all activities*
10. REGULATIONS OF CAPITAL
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Regulation
of Capital
BASEL1 Accord
BASEL II Framework
BASEL III Framework
• Assist bank regulators in setting their own
requirements
• Banks with greater risk are required to
maintain a higher level of capital which
discourages banks taking excessive risk
• Reinvesting the measurement of credit risk-
Assigning risk by weight categories
• Explicitly Accounting for operational risk-
Improving internal controls and techniques for
operational risk
• Maintenance of extra layer of Tier 1 of at least
2.5% of their risk weighted assets
• Increased liquidity so that banks can meet
short term demands for cash
11. HOW REGULATORS MONITOR BANKS
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Capital
adequacy
Bank regulators typically conduct on-site examination of each commercial bank at least once in a year.
Addition to on-site examination, regulators monitor commercial banks with computerized monitoring
systems that analyze data provided by the banks on a quarterly basis.
Regulators rate bank on the basis of six characteristics constitute the CAMELS ratings.
• Banks needs to maintain adequate capital based on BASEL III framework
• It is one of the major criteria where regulators closely monitored
• Evaluations of bank assets including loans and securities based on the credit risk criteria
• Regulatory examination is not based on the past performance of the assets, but rather to
detect any problem that could cause the bank to fail in future
Asset
Quality
12. HOW REGULATORS MONITOR BANKS
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Managemen
t
• Regulators rate bank’s management based on their administrative skills
• Ability to comply with existing regulations and ability to cope up with changing
environment
• Bank fails when their earnings are consistently negative
• Regulators use return on assets ratio to evaluate profitability i.e., after tax earnings
divided by assets
Earnings
• Banks obtaining frequent funds raises from federal market a concern for regulators
about bank liquidity crisis
Liquidity
• Regulators also assess the degree to which a bank might be exposed to adverse financial
market conditions
Earnings
13. CENTRAL ROLE OF BANKS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
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Every individual has a relationship to banks in one or other way
• Regular income placed in a bank account
• Paying for goods and services by bank credit or debit cards
• Taking bank loans for purchasing automobile or house or apartment
Same applies to business relationship to banks
• Accounts payable and Accounts receivable by banks
• Finance their investments for long term projects, infrastructure projects
• Banking services utilized for business like Auto bank reconciliations, international payments etc.,
Important questions to banks
• If banking collapses so much damage, could we manage with out banks?
• Must banks be so unstable, so why?
• How can society can improve the stability of banking system?
• Why do banking crisis lasts so long?
14. CENTRAL ROLE OF BANKS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
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• Between January 1930 and March 1933- US Industrial production fell by 46 percent and unemployment
rose to 25 percent
• In Great Britain, unemployment raised to 25 percent and 29 percent in Australia
• In Germany , Industrial production almost halved and more than one third of the workforce was out of
work
• In Chile, national income fell by 33 percent between 1929 and 1932
• This caused great depression and resulted in deep economic downturn and banking crisis.
• Everywhere bank collapsed, people were forced to leave their homes and widespread starvation even in
relatively rich countries
Economy crisis linked to Bank crisis in global
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• Depression began with a fairly normal recession in 1929, but in 1930, it developed into banking crisis
• Economic crisis developed concerns in depositors and worried about banks survival
• Depositors rushed to banks to withdraw all their savings
• If enough people do this simultaneously, bank reserves cannot cover all withdrawals and forced to conduct
fire sale of assets at potentially huge losses.
• This drives the banks to bankruptcy
• Number of banks halved in three years and in many cases due to bank runs
What caused Economic crisis linked to Banking crisis
16. CENTRAL ROLE OF BANKS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
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• How banks raised as Financial intermediaries:
• Households make direct investments in banks and use when the money for need arise. Bank use
money for investment projects by corporations that need financing. These will be profitable during
long run, but if terminated early, the returns will be very low. If banks were not there, house holds
must make direct investments in projects and money need in short notice must terminate the projects.
• Banks creates money:
• Banks is an intermediary that transform assets with long term maturity into bank accounts with short
maturity. This is called maturity transformation
• Vulnerable to rumors: Depositors rush to bank to withdraw money in reference to rumors on bankrupt.
• Bank monitor borrowers: Bank checks credit worthiness of borrowers at a certain cost and regulators
monitors the banks
• Diamonds model explains how the existence of banks leads to reduction in the cost of transferring savings
to productive investments known as cost of credit intermediation
Diamond and Dybvig’s model
17. TRIGGERS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS BEFORE 2007-2008
1992
Fannie and
Freddie
• Congress passed legislation that requires government sponsored
mortgage giants Fannie and Freddie to devote a percentage of their
lending to affordable housing
• Lead to increase in overall number of loans being pooled and securitized
and sold as financial instruments
• J.P. Morgan introduces first credit default swap, a credit derivative that can
act as kind of insurance
• CDS market proves to be a major source of systemic risk to the U.S.
financial system
1995-1999
Subprime
mortgages
grow
• In 1995, changes to the community reinvestment act passed to end
discrimination against low-income borrowers and allowed mortgage
lenders to buy subprime securities to fulfill their affordable housing
lending
• In September 1999, Fannie Mae ease credit requirements to encourage
banks to extend loans to people whose credit is lower than what is
required for conventional loans.
• This triggered growth in Subprime lending industry
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18. TRIGGERS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS BEFORE 2007-2008
1999
Glass Steagall
Weakend
• In 1999, Congress passed the Financial Services Modernization Act which
allows affiliations between banks, securities firms and insurance
companies
• Since the passage of this act, financial institutions are able to offer all
types of services through their various subsidiaries
• This consolidation improved financial stability
2000-2001
Federal reserve
cuts interest rates
• Prompted by the burst of dot com bubble and the resulting recession, Fed
introduced to lower its interest rates eleven times.
• Falling interest rates lead to an easy credit environment
• This ensuing credit bubble plays a larger role in run-up to the Financial
crisis
2004
Wallstreet places
riskier bets
• In April 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission loosens the net
capital rule which investment banks to 12-to-1 leverage ratio on
investments
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19. TIMING AND KEY EVENTS IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 2007-2008
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• Boom in U.S housing prices in 2006 reversed and
declines accelerated in 2007
• Largest single year drop in U.S. home sales in more than
two decades
• This downturn triggers the collapse of U.S. subprime
mortgages who offered loans to consumers having poor
credit history or having multiple loans or bad debts
• More than twenty- five subprime lending firms declared
bankrupt in beginning of 2007
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• Subprime mortgage is a type of loan granted to
individuals with poor credit scores who wouldn’t qualify
for conventional mortgages.
• In April 2007, New Century Financial corporation, the
largest U.S. subprime lender filed for Bankruptcy.
• It triggered analysts about the impact who had invested
heavily in securitized debt from subprime loans
• In July, Bear Stearns one of the largest U.S. investment
banks announces two of its hedge funds lost all the
capital
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• Subprime mortgage spread worldwide as hedge funds
and global banks have substantial holdings of mortgage-
backed securities
• France’s BNP announces on Aug 9, that there is no
liquidity in the market for the assets held by three of its
hedge funds
• Other European banks followed same pattern and steps
in to offer low interest rates
• As lending markets drying up- U.S. , European Union,
Australia, Canada and Japan coordinated to inject
liquidity into credit markets
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• Corporations borrow money from Federal bank to satisfy
their short-term needs
• Interest rate charged in the federal funds market is called
federal funds rate
• It is quoted on annualized basis and is typically close to
treasury security
• In September, the Federal Reserve makes its first in a
series on interest tax cuts, lowering the federal funds rate
from 5.25 percent to 4.75
• In January 2008, Fed cuts its benchmark rate by three
quarters of a percentage point
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• Bear Stearns announces major liquidity problems and
granted a 28-day emergency loan from New York federal
reserve bank
• Later it is collapsed and acquired by JP Morgan Chase for
pennies on the dollar
• JP Morgan chase buys Bear Stearns for $2 per share in
rescue deal backed by $30 billion in Fed financing
• In February, the British government forced to nationalize
Northern rock
• Sudden collapse of Bear Stearns one of the most iconic
institutions of Wall street spart board fears about the
stability of Financial sector
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• U.S. government announces to seize control of Federal
mortgage insurers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
• It is considered as the most dramatic intervention in the
credit crisis to date
• These two firms are riddled with mortgage defaults
• Federal regulators scared that collapse would cause to
massive collateral damage for financial markets and
United States economy
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• Lehman brothers, a major global investment bank and a
fixture of wall street for more than 150 years, files for
bankruptcy
• It became signal of the devastation caused by the Global
financial crisis
• Many investors assumed that U.S. government would
intervene to prevent Lehman who is having huge bank
size from falling
• In contrary, U.S. treasury and Fed leaders fear at the time
that bailing our Lehman would create “moral hazard”
within banking industry
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2007
April
2007
Aug
2007
Sep
2007
Mar
2008
Sep
7,200
8
Sep
15,2008
Sep
16,2008
U.S. Housing
bubble bursts
Subprime Bankrupt
proliferate
Subprime woes go
global
Fed slashes rate
and market peaks
Fire sales of Bear
Stearns
Fannie and Freddie
nationalization
Collapse of
Lehman Brothers
Federal bails out
AIG
• American International Group (AIG), had downgraded
from credit agencies which had bet heavily in credit rate
swap market.
• Unlike Lehman, AIG is “Too big to Fail” and a collapse
would trigger cascading failures throughout U.S. and
global financial systems
• Just a day later after Lehman brothers is collapsed, the
Fed steps into rescue American International Group (AIG),
the largest insurer in United States with an $85 billion
loan.
27. PROTESTS FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR BANKS
2009
• Tea party organized and staged protests through out the United States
• They contended that government was spending excessively
• This leads to larger budget deficits that could potentially weaken the
economy
• Proposed solution
• Eliminate government funding on bail out banks to reduce excessive
government spending
2011
• Occupy wall street movement was organized and began to stage protests
• Its criticism was that executives of many financial institutions who has
caused the crisis were excessively rewarded
• CEO of Lehman Brothers received compensation of $500 million over the
2000-2008 period prior to Lehman’s failure
• Financial institutions received government funding during crisis continued
to pay large bonuses to executives
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Demand deposit account- customers who desire to write checks and make payment using debit cards
Negotiable order of withdrawal- Which pay interest as well as provides checking and debit card services
Transaction deposits are mostly originated as electronic transactions
Saving deposits are passbook savings account which do not permit check writing or the use of debit or credit cars
Time deposits are certificates of deposits or Negotiable certificates of deposits
Money market deposit accounts are conventional time deposits in that they do not specify a maturity
Business loans are working capital loan or term loans or direct lease loan or revolving credit loan
Insurance limits are increased from $100,000 to $250,000 as part of Emergency Economic Stabilization
DIDMCA- Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act enacted to deregulate the banking industry and improve monetary policy
Gran St.. Germain act permitted depository institutions to offer money market deposit accounts
Activities include- traditional banking activities, securities trading, underwriting and insurance