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Domestic Crisis Simulation Exercises: the UK
Paul WrightFSA
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Why simulations?
• Financial stability crises are rare• Supervisors may experience one or two in their
careers• Simulation better than teaching• UK structures will inevitably move apart• Not yet tested fully in a real world crisis
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UK context
FSA
StandingCommittee
Bank
HMTMonetary PolicyMonetary OperationsRegulatory Policy
Emerging RisksSurveillance
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Statutory process
• Tripartite Committee– Chancellor, Governor, Chairman– Meets as necessary
• Standing Committee (deputies)– Meets monthly (or more often if necessary)– Regular items (Bank assessment of financial
stability, FSA assessment of sectors)– Other items on risk basis
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Building an exercise: what to test?
• Domestic or international?• Financial stability or business continuity?• UK – all tests involve tripartite structure• Level of testing:
– Basic contacts– Institutional coordination– Key decisions (including theology)
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Building an exercise: central plot
• Keep the central plot simple – complexity comes later
• Make it plausible– Base on ‘stylised facts’ for simplicity– Difficult plausibly to isolate firms
• Keep all players busy– May be difficult o/a ‘life cycle’ of exercise
• Use sub plots
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Crisis ‘life cycle’
• First response tends to be ‘regulatory’– Fact/information finding– Regulatory forbearance?
• Central bank more important towards end of the day
– Will certainly involve cb balance sheet– Market clearing– Liquidity support
• Finance ministry– Underwrite financial support?
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Crisis ‘life cycle’
FSABank
Time
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Building the scenario
• Players receive a series of stimuli– Different aspects for each authority– Note, change in market data, phone call
• Designers must predict (within reason) the responses
– Several possible reactions– Keep it reasonably simple– Don’t allow extreme ‘game over’ reactions– Don’t allow players to assume away problems– Build in breaks and listen in
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‘Dependent and independent’ variables
FSABankHMTOtherGovt.OtherRegsOtherCBs
PressMarketFirms
FSA
Bank
HM
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NarrativeImperative
Reaction Function
From
To
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Reaction functions
• Even simple plots can get into uncharted territory
• Will inevitably be some need to improvise– Can specify quantity/quality of collateral– Cannot always anticipate legal issues or risk appetite of
players
• Also to ‘interpolate’ aspects of scenario– Scenario inevitably involves discrete intervals– What happens in between?
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Anticipating reactions
Path
Block
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Documents
• What documents are required at each stage?– Based on ‘stylised cases’ where possible– If not, create de novo– May need to make some up on the spot– Consistency with story, including time of use– May need to ‘interpolate’– Eg how long to produce? How to reward insight?
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The design team
• Need staff capable of:– Understanding complex interactions– Predicting reaction functions– Building material – Generate market data– Paragons not available to play!– Manage difficult governance arrangements
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The team
• Mission control– Gather feedback– Respond to developments– Interpolate– Real time orchestration
• Role players• Referees
– Senior enough to ‘yellow card’
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Follow up
• Follow up plan• Gather feedback• Identify areas/actions for improvement
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A recent example
Broad outline• Event (ECJ judgement) affecting the value of bank A’s
commercial loan portfolio and MBS programme• Market-wide implications – bank B withdraws MBS issue• Bank B suffers downgrades and severe liquidity shortage• Issues
– Will central bank provide liquidity support?– Can the payments system operate?
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FCM exercise – a timeline of main storyline eventsBank B RTGS collateral is exhausted – they request liquidity based on CMBS assets, and also need a counterparty for $ swap
Bank B withdraws its CMBS
Bank A - statement on their Commercial
Mortgage Back Securities(CMBS)
Bank B conduit needs more collateral
10 am 12 pm 1 pm 3 pm2 pm 4 pm9 am 11 am
Bank A’s share price volatile – rumours linking it to ruling –raises suspension issues
FT article mentions ECJ ruling
Playing of game stopsPayments to Bank B begin to slow
Playing of game starts -participants enter game
Bank B notified of 2notch downgrade &
post most of collateral in
Real Time Gross Settlement System
(RTGS)
Further liquidity drains following announcement of 3 notch downgrade (eg bank and co. deposits)
Some banks withdraw deposits
Legal ruling announced Property companies draw
back-up lines
3 notch downgrade announced
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Liquidity: pre-shocks
-1 2 .0
-9 .5
-7 .0
-4 .5
-2 .00 9 :3 0 1 1 :0 0 1 2 :3 0 1 3 :4 5 1 4 :3 0 1 5 :3 0 1 7 :0 0
CH A P S a /c p re -c r isis p ro jec t io nCo lla t e ra l p o st ed in CH A P ST o t a l r em a in in g 'av a ilable ' a sse t s
£ billio n s
T im e
Chart 1 : CHA P S s et t lem ent ac c ount pro jec t ion p re -crisis (9 .30a m )
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Liquidity: by 2.30pmChart 3: actual position of CHAPS settlement account at 2.30pm
-12 .0
-9 .5
-7 .0
-4 .5
-2 .009:30 11:00 12:30 13:45 14:30 15:30 17:00
CHAP S a/c pre-crisis pro ject ionCollat eral post ed in CHAP SCHAP S act ual posit ion
£ billions
T im e
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Lessons learned
• Modelling market reactions (eg interbank)• Modelling others’ reactions (eg clearing house
collateral requirements)• Outcomes kept within bounds
– No immediate collapse– No assuming problems away
• Make sure everyone wants to get the same thing from the exercise
• Always scope to broaden out (industry, international)• Payments, payments, payments