Over the next decade, we might expect that a broad spectrum of insurance, lending, and securities companies will become involved.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an agency of the United States federal government.

Even so, the explosion in the quantity of collateralized debt obligations and similar securities went far beyond what was needed to sustain mortgage lending.

As they absorb their losses on US treasury and agency securities, capital flows toward the US will diminish.

That way, they would share the pain if the securities are not serviced and thus gain a powerful incentive to maintain tight mortgage lending standards.

Flawed regulations further distort weak banks behavior for example, by biasing them in favor of making loans to governments or investing in marketable securities over lending to businesses.

Both started as NGOs (following the Grameen model) and received millions in grant money from development institutions to start lending operations. They also got access to low cost lending from government banks and multilateral institutions such as the International Finance Corporation (the World Bank s commercial lending arm) and the US Agency for International Development.

Fully two thirds of that total around 2 trillion is invested in dollar based assets, largely US Treasuries and agency securities (i.e., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac).

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This thesis is now gaining much broader traction major newspapers now report a broadening criminal probe by the federal government and by New York s state attorney general into the US financial sector s residential lending and related securities practices.

Mortgage originators bore no consequences for their irresponsibility, and even those who engaged in predatory lending or created and marketed securities that were designed to lose did so in ways that insulated them from civil and criminal prosecution.

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A new portfolio of regulations would increase banks capital requirements, limit the debt that they could take on, and establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to protect naïve borrowers against predatory lending.

The IMF s Lending Overhaul

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(d) Consumer Lending (CLP)

Along with roughly 700 billion in Chinese holdings of US agency debt (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), China s total 2 trillion exposure to US government and quasi government securities is massive by any standard.

The hearings also led to passage of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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(b) Solidarity Group Lending (SGL)

In Greenspan s words, the self interest of lending institutions would protect shareholders and the economy from lending excess.

The EIB should expand its lending.

Nor do existing international lending institutions.

A multilateral agency such as the World Bank could play a critical role in launching a market in commodity bonds. The fit would be particularly good in those countries where the Bank is already lending money.

The market for such securities has now vanished.

True, major commercial banks, like Citibank and Bank of America, tottered, but they were not at risk because of their securities underwriting for corporate clients or their securities trading divisions, but because of how they (mis)handled mortgage securities.

Lending to eurozone governments continues to have a zero risk weight. This will only increase the bias in bank lending towards government debt and against lending to enterprises, especially small and medium size businesses.

Lending dried up and economies started shrinking.

Some commercial banking activities are closer to securities trading.

In 2007 2008, this was the case for a class of securities based on residential mortgages in the United States (RMBS, or residential mortgage backed securities).

This is reflected in the World Bank s lending.

It all started from careless and inappropriate lending.

Italian banks were banned from holding securities in industrial corporations.

The rating agencies miscalculated the value of asset backed securities.

Most of these funds are now invested in dollar securities.

By contrast, such US securities are like a lottery ticket.

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The effect was especially pronounced in lending to non financial companies, whereas lending to households an area with traditionally lower internationalization remained more robust.

To the extent that executive compensation is tied to the value of specified securities, such pay could be tied to a broader basket of securities, not only common shares.

This justifies government regulation of lending and investment practices.

After the 1970 s, though, sovereign lending became institutionalized.

But simply lending more would not improve the situation.