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How Basel III Changes Where Capital Sits: Nonbank Subsidiaries as Equity Reservoirs

This post is the second in a three-part series on how bank regulation interacts with the organizational structure of banking firms. The first post documented that nonbank subsidiaries inside bank holding companies (BHCs) are large, equity-rich "reservoirs," and that bank-level capital diverged sharply from consolidated capital after Basel III took effect in 2015. This post asks why, and traces…

How Basel III Changes Where Capital Sits: Nonbank Subsidiaries as Equity Reservoirs

We haven't written up this one. Liberty Street Economics has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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