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The Global Financial Environment
10 Sep 2008
FSR
– September 2008
Under the rescue package, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will lend AIG up to $US85 billion, secured by AIG's assets, at an interest rate of 3-month LIBOR ... One illustration of the extreme conditions that prevailed at the time was that the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2008/sep/global-fin-env.html
The Global Financial Environment
10 Sep 2010
FSR
– September 2010
For life insurers, low interest rates and compressed margins have weighed on profits. ... Lower interest rates have eased debt servicing burdens, and unemployment has stabilised or fallen in a number of countries.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2010/sep/global-fin-env.html
Box A: Household Sector Risks in China
4 Oct 2019
FSR
– October 2019
The increase in household income and a decline in interest rates in China over the 2010s have also raised households' ability to service debt. ... Higher debt makes households more vulnerable to adverse shocks, such as a fall in income, higher interest
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2019/oct/box-a-household-sector-risks-in-china.html
Developments in the Financial System Architecture
10 Mar 2013
FSR
– March 2013
manage conflicts of interest; and a second that proposed the establishment of supervisory colleges for internationally active CRAs. ... A senior Bank official is participating in a team conducting a country peer review of the United Kingdom this year.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2013/mar/dev-fin-sys-arch.html
Developments in the Financial System Architecture
10 Sep 2014
FSR
– September 2014
This recommendation in part reflects that the Australian dollar interest rate derivatives market is the largest and most systemically important component of the OTC derivatives market in Australia and that it ... As discussed in the chapter ‘The
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2014/sep/dev-fin-sys-arch.html
The Structure of the Australian Financial System
10 Mar 2006
FSR
– March 2006
The decline in inflation in the early 1990s, and the lower interest rates that followed, substantially boosted the demand for housing finance. ... CMTs rose to prominence in the mid 1990s by offering significantly higher interest rates and greater
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2006/mar/struct-aus-fin-sys.html
The Global Financial Environment
10 Mar 2010
FSR
– March 2010
Nonetheless, there are some early signs that the default rate may have peaked, reflecting the general improvement in macroeconomic and financial conditions. ... While the major central banks have flagged that low interest rates will be maintained for
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2010/mar/global-fin-env.html
Developments in the Financial System Architecture
10 Sep 2013
FSR
– September 2013
The report recommends the government consider a central clearing mandate for interest rate derivatives denominated in US dollars, euro, British pounds and Japanese yen, primarily on international consistency grounds. ... The report also noted that the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2013/sep/dev-fin-sys-arch.html
Developments in the Financial System Infrastructure
10 Mar 2005
FSR
– March 2005
Low-doc loans, in particular, are recognised as likely to have both higher probabilities of default and greater variability in default rates than standard loans, warranting more conservative regulatory capital arrangements. ... Interest in financial data
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2005/mar/dev-fin-sys-infra.html
Developments in the Financial System Infrastructure
10 Sep 2004
FSR
– September 2004
supervisors to require capital to be held against other risks, such as interest-rate risk. ... However, the accounting standards do not permit hedge accounting involving demand deposits – a source of concern to those ADIs that tend to hedge the interest
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2004/sep/dev-fin-sys-infra.html