CHAPTER 2
Financial Services: Depository Institutions
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Overview of Depository Institutions
 This chapter discusses depository FIs:
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Size, structure, and composition
Balance sheets and recent trends
Regulation of depository institutions
Depository institutions performance
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Products of U.S. FIs
 Comparing the products of FIs in 1950,
to products of FIs in 2007:
– Much greater distinction between types
of FIs in terms of products in 1950 than in
2010
– Blurring of product lines and services over
time and wider array of services
– (Refer to Tables 2-1A and 2-1B in the text)
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Specialness of Depository FIs
 Products on both sides of the balance
sheet
– Loans
 Business and Commercial
– Deposits
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Other outputs of depository
FIs
 Other products and services 1950:
– Payment services, savings products,
fiduciary services
 By 2007, products and services further
expanded to include:
– Underwriting of debt and equity,
Insurance and risk management products
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Size of Depository FIs
 Consolidation has created some very
large FIs
 Combined effects of disintermediation,
global competition, regulatory
changes, technological
developments, competition across
different types of FIs
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Largest US Depository Institutions
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J.P.Morgan Chase
Bank of America
Citigroup
Wells Fargo
U.S. Bancorp
HSBC North America
Bank of NY Mellon
Suntrust
State Street Corp.
BB&T
Holding Co. Assets
($Billions)
2,041.0
2,252.8
1,888.6
1,228.6
265.1
390.7
212.5
178.3
162.7
165.3
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Commercial Banks
– Largest depository institutions are
commercial banks
– Differences in operating characteristics
and profitability across size classes
 Notable differences in ROE and ROA, as well
as the spread
– Mix of very large banks with very small
banks
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Structure and Composition
 Shrinking number of banks:
– 14,416 commercial banks in 1985
– 12,744 in 1989
– 6,911 in 2009
 Mostly the result of Mergers and
Acquisitions
– M&A prevented prior to 1980s, 1990s
– Consolidation has reduced asset share of
small banks
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Regulation, Functions & Structure
 Functions of depository institutions
– Regulatory sources of differences across
types of depository institutions.
 Structural changes generally resulted
from changes in regulatory policy
– Example: Changes permitting interstate
branching
 Reigle-Neal Act
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Breakdown of Loan Portfolios
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Commercial Banks:
Asset Concentration
Size
All FDIC
Insured
$100M or Less
$100M - $1B
$1B - $10B
$10B or more
2009
Assets
11,866.4
Percent
of Total
100.0
1984
Assets
2,508.9
Percent
of Total
100.0
142.9
1,104.2
1,158.9
9,460.4
1.2
9.3
9.8
79.7
404.2
513.9
725.9
864.8
16.1
20.5
28.9
34.5
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Structure & Composition
of Commercial Banks
 Financial Services Modernization Act
1999
– Allowed full authority to enter investment
banking (and insurance)
 Limited powers to underwrite
corporate securities have existed only
since 1987
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Composition of
Commercial Banking Sector
 Community banks
 Regional and Super-regional
– Access to federal funds market to finance
their lending and investment activities
 Money Center banks
– Bank of New York Mellon, Deutsche Bank
(Bankers Trust), Citigroup, J.P. Morgan
Chase, HSBC Bank USA
 Declining in number
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Balance Sheet and Trends
 Business loans have declined in
importance
 Offsetting increase in securities and
mortgages
 Increased importance of funding via
commercial paper market
 Securitization of mortgage loans
 Temporary effects: credit crunch during
recessions of 1989-92 and 2001-02
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Commercial Banks,
September 2009
 Primary assets:
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Real Estate Loans:
$3,799.3 B
C&I loans:
$1,210.7 B
Loans to individuals:
$959.1 B
Investment security portfolio: $3,335.2 B
Of which, Treasury securities: $1,225.5 B
 Inference: Importance of Credit Risk
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Commercial Banks
 Primary liabilities:
– Deposits:
$8,178.2 billion
– Borrowings:
$2,065.6 billion
– Other liabilities: $307.4 billion
 Inference:
– Highly leveraged
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Some Terminology
 Transaction accounts
 Negotiable Order of Withdrawal
(NOW) accounts
 Money Market Mutual Fund
 Negotiable CDs: Fixed-maturity interest
bearing deposits with face values over
$100,000 that can be resold in the
secondary market
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Equity
 Commercial Banks equity capital
– 11.08 percent of total liabilities and equity
(2009)
– TARP program 2008-2009 intended to
encourage increase in capital
 Citigroup $25 B
 BOA $20 B
– Through 2009: $300 B in capital injections
through TARP
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Off-Balance-Sheet Activities
 Heightened importance of offbalance-sheet items
– OBS assets, OBS liabilities
– Regulatory incentives
– Risk control and risk producing
 Role of mortgage backed securities
 “Toxic” assets
 Expansion of oversight
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Major OBS Activities
– Loan commitments
– Standby letters of credit and letters
of credit
– Futures, forwards, and swaps
– When-issued securities
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Other Fee-Generating Activities
 Trust services
 Correspondent banking
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Check clearing
Foreign exchange trading
Hedging
Participation in large loan and security
issuances
 Payment usually in terms of noninterest
bearing deposits
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Key Regulatory Agencies
– FDIC
 DIF
 Role in preventing contagious runs or panics
– OCC: Primary function is to charter national banks
– FRS: Monetary policy, lender of last resort
 National banks are automatically members of the
FRS; state-chartered banks can elect to become
members
– State bank regulators
– Dual Banking System: Coexistence of national and
state-chartered banks
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Bank Regulators
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Other Regulatory Issues
 Importance of Bank Holding
Companies is increasing
 BHCs regulated by FRS
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Key Regulatory Legislation
 1927 McFadden Act: Controls
branching of national banks
 1933 Glass-Steagall: Separates securities
and banking activities, established
FDIC, prohibited interest on demand
deposits
 1956 Bank Holding Company Act and
subsequent amendments specifies
permissible activities and regulation by
FRS of BHCs
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Legislation (continued)...
 1970 Amendments to the Bank Holding
Company Act: Extension to one-bank
holding companies
 1978 International Banking Act:
Regulated foreign bank branches and
agencies in USA
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Legislation (continued)…
 1980 DIDMCA and 1982 DIA (Garn-St.
Germain Depository Institutions Act)
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Mainly deregulation acts
Phased out Regulation Q
Authorized NOW accounts nationwide
Increased deposit insurance from $40,000
to $100,000
– Reaffirmed limitations on bank powers to
underwrite and distribute insurance
products
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Legislation (continued)…
 1987 Competitive Equality in Banking
Act (CEBA)
– Redefined bank to limit growth of nonbank
banks
 1989 FIRREA
– Imposed restrictions on investment
activities
– Replaced FSLIC with FDIC-SAIF
– Replaced FHLB with Office of Thrift
Supervision
– Created Resolution Trust Corporation
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Legislation (continued)…
 1991 FDIC Improvement Act
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Introduced Prompt Corrective Action
Risk-based deposit insurance premiums
Limited “too big to fail”
Extended federal regulation over foreign
bank branches and agencies
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Legislation (concluded)
 1994 Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking
and Branching Efficiency Act
– Permits BHCs to acquire banks in other
states
– Invalidates some restrictive state laws.
– Permits BHCs to convert out-of-state
subsidiary banks to branches of single
interstate bank
– Newly chartered branches permitted
interstate if allowed by state law
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1999 Financial Services Modernization Act
 Financial Services Modernization Act
– Allowed banks, insurance companies,
and securities firms to enter each others’
business areas
– Provided for state regulation of insurance
– Streamlined regulation of BHCs
– Prohibited FDIC assistance to affiliates and
subsidiaries of banks and savings
institutions
– Provided for national treatment of foreign
banks
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Proposed 2010
 Financial Services Regulatory Overhaul
Bill
– Financial Services Oversight Council
– Power to break up FIs that pose a risk to
the system
– Consumer Financial Protection Agency
– GAO audit of Federal Reserve Activities
– Nonbinding proxy on executive pay
– Clearinghouses for some derivatives
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Industry Performance
 Economic expansion and falling
interest rates through 1990s
 Brief downturn in early 2000 followed
by strong performance improvements
– Record earnings $106.3 billion 2003
 Performance remained strong through
mid 2000s as interest rates rose
 Late 2000s: Strongest recession since
1930s
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Savings Institutions
 Comprised of:
 Savings and Loans Associations
 Savings Banks
– Effects of changes in Federal Reserve’s
policy of interest rate targeting combined
with Regulation Q and disintermediation
– Effects of moral hazard and regulator
forbearance
– Qualified Thrift Lender (QTL) test
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Savings Institutions: Recent Trends
 Industry is smaller overall
 Intense competition from other FIs
– Mortgages, for example
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Primary Regulators
 Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
– Charters and examines all federal S&Ls
 FDIC-DIF Fund
– FDIC Oversaw and managed Savings
Association Insurance Fund (SAIF)
– SAIF and BIF merged in January 2007 to
form DIF
– Same regulatory structure applied to
commercial banks
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Credit Unions
 Nonprofit DIs owned by memberdepositors with a common bond
 Exempt from taxes and Community
Reinvestment Act (CRA)
 Expansion of services offered in order to
compete with other FIs
 Claim of unfair advantage of CUs over
small commercial banks
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Composition of Credit Union
Deposits, 2009
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Global Issues
 Spread of US financial crisis to other
countries
 Many European banks saved from
bankruptcy through support of
governments and central banks
 Interest rates at or below 1 percent
 Links to the macroeconomy
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