Banks struggle to meet funding challenge

The banking industry’s key challenge remains to stabilize its own sources of finance. Regulators and creditors have pressed banks to build their deposit gathering and extend the term of their market borrowings, with some policymakers calling for levies on non-deposit borrowings.

Even before they tackle this, the Institute of International Finance, the trade body for large international banks, suggests that banks globally already have to refinance $7.6 trillion of maturing bonds between now and 2015.

Now, as central banks and governments struggle to roll over their own finances, their capacity to fund the global banking system, including through purchase and repo financing of assets banks can no longer securitize and sell on to private buyers, is diminished.

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