Estimating Settlement Risk and the Potential for Contagion in Canada’s Automated Clearing Settlement System
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Payments systems operate virtually unnoticed in our daily lives and yet are crucial to a wellfunctioning economy and financial system. Because they explicitly link financial institutions, payments systems provide a way to transmit risk within, and between, financial systems. Ideally, payments systems should be designed and operated so as not to add risk in the event of a crisis. The author examines the potential for contagion through linkages arising from the interaction of financial institutions in a Canadian payments system, the Automated Clearing Settlement System (ACSS). A method of measuring risk in the system, given its unique design, is developed and used to estimate contagion over a wide range of conditions. The author finds, first and foremost, that the ACSS has only a limited capacity, if any, to facilitate contagion in the current environment. JEL classification: E44, G21 Bank classification: Financial institutions; Payments, clearing and settlements systems Résumé Bien qu’ils passent presque inaperçus dans la vie quotidienne, les systèmes de paiement n’en sont pas moins indispensables au bon fonctionnement de l’économie et du système financier. En raison des liens explicites qu’ils créent entre les institutions financières, ils constituent un vecteur de transmission du risque à l’intérieur des systèmes financiers ainsi qu’entre ceux-ci. Idéalement, les systèmes de paiement devraient être conçus et exploités de façon à ne pas augmenter le risque en cas de crise. L’auteure étudie ici la possibilité que les liens reliant entre elles les institutions financières au sein du Système automatisé de compensation et de règlement (SACR), l’un des systèmes de paiement canadiens, soient une source de contagion. En tenant compte des caractéristiques particulières de ce système, elle élabore une méthode pour y mesurer le risque de contagion dans un large éventail de circonstances. La principale conclusion qui ressort de son travail est que, dans l’environnement actuel, la propension du SACR à faciliter la contagion est limitée sinon nulle. Classification JEL : E44, G21 Classification de la Banque : Institutions financières; Systèmes de paiement, de compensation et de règlement
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