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Bank run in Ireland to the tune of 10 Billion
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[quote:fordman:MV8xMjU2MTExXzIwNDk0MjQ4XzFGRUM3Q0E4] This is what a 21st century bank run looks like. Terms suddenly change in the repo market, where banks get their funding, and the whole system begins to teeter. It's a structural problem in the so-called shadow banking system for which there's no remedy. Conventional banks exchange bonds with shadow banks for short-term loans agreeing to repurchase (repo) them at a later date. But when investors get nervous about the solvency of the bank, the collateral gets a haircut which makes it more expensive to fund operations. That sends bond yields skyrocketing increasing the liklihood of default. In this case, the debt-overhang from a burst development bubble is bearing down on the Irish government threatening to bankrupt the country. Ireland is in dire straights. Here's an excerpt from an article in this week's Irish Times which sums it up: "Until September, Ireland had the legal option of terminating the bank guarantee on the grounds that three of the guaranteed banks had withheld material information about their solvency, in direct breach of the 1971 Central Bank Act. The way would then have been open to pass legislation along the lines of the UK’s Bank Resolution Regime, to turn the roughly €75 billion of outstanding bank debt into shares in those banks, and so end the banking crisis at a stroke. [/quote]
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Glass-Steagall.Silent Run on the Bank of Ireland by Corporate Depositors
November 14, 2010 • 11:54AM
There has been a silent run by corporate depositors at the Bank of Ireland which is now Ireland's biggest lender and is 36% owned by the government. The bank announced that in August and September there were withdrawals by corporate depositors. Citing banking sources, the Irish Times suggests that the withdrawal could have been as much as EU10 billion. The bank said while the situation had "stabilized" there nonetheless continued to be "outflows of ratings-sensitive customer deposits in our capital markets business." On top of that, mortgage arrears at the bank continue to increase." The bank admitted it continues to be totally dependent on the European Central Bank's emergency unlimited liquidity window for funding where it receives short-term credits of no longer than three months' duration.
There is a direct British connection. The Bank of Ireland is in a joint venture with the British Post Office Bank which operates 11,500 branches and is used primarily by normal depositors. Also not widely reported this week is the fact that this subsidiary was reorganized as Bank of Ireland (UK) plc as of November 1, so as to allow the deposits to fall under Britain's deposit guarantee scheme. This was no doubt a pre-emptive move to avoid a run on the bank as the crisis worsens.
While Inter-Alpha's Allied Irish Bank's small banking operation in the U.K. also falls under the British deposit insurance scheme, the U.K. subsidiary of Anglo Irish Bank, now 100% owned by the government, is not covered by the U.K. guarantee, but only the Irish guarantee which is good as long as the Irish government is solvent.
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