Re:The digital pound: A new form of money for households and...
by upsidesinclude on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:20PM
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This must be wildly different between the US and the UK, a difference of which I was unaware.
At least you have that going for you
Re:The digital pound: A new form of money for households and...
by kasey_junk on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:42AM
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I don’t know how to look up the stats with the Bank of England as well as I do the Fed to check, but here is a report[0] from the pandemic from S&P that suggests at least for the big banks in the UK there isn’t much difference.
Santander and Lloyds are a little higher than you’d see in the big banks in the US at 1.1 Loan:Deposit but NatWest, HSBC, Barclays, and Standard Chartered all sit in the .6-.9 range which is where banks in the US typically like to be.
Maybe your small banks and credit unions operate dramatically differently than your big banks but that would be surprising. It would also be surprising because the Basel accords make it pretty tough to meet your credit and market risk requirements without using deposits to fund loans.
[0] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
The typical ratio people talk about here loan:deposit. Bank investors get spooked if that goes over about .8 currently. Prior to 2008 it was closer to .9 but the financial crisis caused people to be more risk adverse. A ratio over 1 implies a bank is lacking liquidity. A 10:1 loan:deposit ratio would be real bad. The industry overall during the pandemic was sitting at around .6, which is one of the reasons the Fed removed the reserve requirement. They wanted to stimulate lending. LTD is not typically part of regulatory control (though in the US there are certain controls to make sure no bank gets to big that hinge on it). Rather its enforced by the market, because equity holders demand it, because they have lower debt precedence.
Bank assets(loans, investments, cash, etc):liabilities (deposits, borrowed money, trading losses, foreign bank holdings, etc) requirements are covered by capital regulations. A bank with greater than 1 a:l would be considered insolvent and depending on the regulatory regime they are part of, might be forcibly put into receivership.
Banks create money through lending, not because they are lending more than they are taking in, but because to the person being lent to, they now have more money. They have both their deposit, and the loan which can be put into circulation now. But they have a corresponding liability to the bank that must be paid over time.