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Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed

New Books in Finance

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The Invisibility of Foreign Exchange Markets

The BIS also have a very good report on the foreign exchange markets. And it was really pretty shocking. The size of the foreign exchange exposure through of forwards and derivatives and swaps was enormous. Just banks outside the United States outside the regulatory purview of the U.S. was around 40 trillion. But more importantly, the estimate of the size of the shadow banking system was about 26 trillion. Now those numbers are on a growth basis, especially when you're doing a swap or a forward transaction. It does bring up is the counterparty risks embedded in those numbers, especially in the shadow bankingsystem.

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