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The weird thing is that transparency about the difficulty at the bank is exactly what leads to the run. The incentives of the banking system are to hide reality
by quantified 4y ago
The weird thing is that transparency about the difficulty at the bank is exactly what leads to the run. The incentives of the banking system are to hide reality in case of a financial breach. Whereas for a security breach, the incentives need to be to be forthright.
How's an executive supposed to keep the nuance of when to lie?
- iaabtpbtpnn 4y agoWhat good is a bank executive who can't?
- yellowstuff 4y agoThere's a 2014 paper that describes this dynamic. Clients want deposits (bank liabilities) that act like cash, but they are backed by assets that have fluctuating values. Banks need to be "optimally opaque" to make this work. https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/pier/working-paper/2014/banks-secret-keepers https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/pier/working-paper/2014/bank...
- bentcorner 4y agoDo they really? Isn't it only the interest rate that decides how much risk a bank wants to take on? Couldn't I could open a bank, stuff your cash into my vault and charge you a negative interest rate to pay for guards.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoYou could, but that is not what "clients want".
- jsjohnst 4y agoI’d definitively signup if that was available, just ideally as a monthly fee vs a negative interest rate. Just like I’ll pay for my content over it being “free” with ads and/or worse dark patterns.
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- lotsofpulp 4y agoWhich clients are these? Wouldn’t there be a set of clients, such as businesses trying to make payroll, who simply want 100% guarantees of money being there.
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- fineIllregister 4y agoSounds impossible. If the money is just shoved in a vault, the bank has to come up with money for rent/taxes, payroll for someone put the money in and take it out, etc. If the money is guaranteed to be there, then it can't be 100% of it.
- beambot 4y agoOr we could just have a Fed Bank, where the dollars act like cash because they are cash... Upshot: No more middleman.
- nradov 4y agoOfficers of a publicly traded corporation aren't legally allowed to lie about anything financially material to the business. That would be securities fraud, and could potentially expose them to personal civil liability or even criminal charges. They might be allowed to delay announcing some material issues, but they can't outright lie.
- indymike 4y ago> The weird thing is that transparency about the difficulty at the bank is exactly what leads to the run. There are places where transparency does not work. I wish it did.
- daniel-thompson 4y agoThere is a third option: they can get their ducks in a row and discreetly line up a solution _before_ announcing the problem. An executive making 7 figures p/a ought to know this.