34 years: Banking and Capital Markets
The basic business of banking involves advancing loans to customers and accepting deposits from customers. Moorad covers the basic concept of bank self-funding, which is underpinned by the fundamental premise that a bank must actually fund itself, not print money, in order to lend.
The basic business of banking involves advancing loans to customers and accepting deposits from customers. Moorad covers the basic concept of bank self-funding, which is underpinned by the fundamental premise that a bank must actually fund itself, not print money, in order to lend.
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A bank cannot simply print or create its own money in order to lend money. It must actually fund itself in order to lend. Funding the balance sheet requires that a bank has in place a source for obtaining the funds. This can come through three sources; its own funds, its customer's deposits or the wholesale market.
Key learning objectives:
Understand how the bank ensures the balance sheet balances
Outline the three sources banks can use to raise funds
Understand what happens if a bank cannot raise funds from these sources
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The basic business of banking involves advancing loans to customers and accepting deposits from customers. This together with the bank’s own shareholders’ equity and its portfolio of risk-free liquid assets represents the bank’s balance sheet.
The concept of fractional reserve banking is that a loan is self-funded; every time that a bank advances a loan, it “creates” a deposit of equal notional value alongside it. Thus, the balance sheet balances.
A bank creates a double-entry in its general ledger, so that a £100 loan is simultaneously “balanced” with a £100 deposit, but nevertheless, the bank has to find that £100 itself. It must obtain that £100 from somewhere else in order to be able to fund the £100 loan it has made. It cannot simply create £100 and then lend it on to a borrower.
If a bank seeks to make a loan and can’t fund it from any of these sources, then it will not be able to make the loan. In other words, it won’t be able to advance the loan monies to the borrower.
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