Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173369 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Paper No. 2016-16
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
The recent financial crisis has led to the development of new regulations to control risk in designated payment systems, and the implementation of new credit risk management standards is one of the key issues. In this paper, we study various credit risk management schemes for the Canadian retail payment system (ACSS) that are designed to cover the exposure of a defaulting member. We consider schemes that use a collateral pool calculated using a rolling time window. Our simulations show that the size of the window has a very significant effect on the average level of collateral and its variability day to day, creating an interesting trade-off. Collateral levels and variability may be important for ACSS participants because they could affect the opportunity costs of pledging collateral, and also the costs of managing it over time. Our results contribute to understanding the practical implementation of risk management schemes in the current and future generations of payment systems in Canada.
Subjects: 
Econometric and statistical methods
Financial stability
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL: 
G21
G23
C58
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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