The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice

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Insurers are not Banks: Assessing Liquidity, Efficiency and Solvency Risk Under Alternative Approaches to Capital Adequacy

Paul Kupiec and David Nickerson

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Table 1. Risk market participation by large financial institutions

Firm Assets Derivatives Regulator
  2000 1999 2000 1999  
JPMorganChase715,348667,00324,526,02221,812,900FRB (U.S.)
Deutsche Bank AG875,112845,7449,066,7157,654,199BAKred (Germany)
BNP Paribas592,733703,5997,810,9117,430,370CRBF/CM (France)
Citigroup902,210716,9377,813,8517,351,197FRB (U.S.)
Bank of America Co.642,191632,5747,521,9605,127,219FRB (U.S.)
Merrill Lynch383,904329,5545,313,8903,939,000SEC (U.S.)
UBS Warburg679,998616,4285,151,4995,619,394CFDB (Switzerland)
Morgan Stanley421,279366,9674,529,6313,404,000SEC (U.S.)
Barclays PLC472,230411,4424,525,4902,732,869FSA (U.K.)
Lehman Brothers225,668192,2443,752,6002,895,650SEC (U.S.)
HypoVeriensbank674,670506,7481,860,4501,570,308BAKred (Germany)
Wachovia328,202259,7571,142,715631,344FRB (U.S.)
CIBC178,587172,447995,9941,263,387OSFI (Canada)
Goldman Sachs289,760250,491942,152809,205SEC (U.S.)
Bank of Montreal155,675159,788935,526811,035OSFI (Canada)
Dresdner AG232,871204,348929,834795,602BAKred (Germany)
Bank One269,300269,425807,6391,031,089FRB (U.S.)
Nomura Holdings141,125122,407729,005632,314FSA (U.K.)
Bear Stearns171,200162,000596,900622,300SEC (U.S.)
AIG426,671383,685521,021413,357NYID/SEC (U.S.)
FHLBS583,212434,002494,621382,421FHFB (U.S.)
FreddieMac459,297386,684467,281409,920OFHEO (U.S.)
FleetBoston Financial Corp.179,519190,692391,726292,250FRB (U.S.)
FannieMae675,072575,167324,812251,570OFHEO (U.S.)
Bank of New York77,11474,756312,311316,689FRB (U.S.)
HSBC North America104,29990,240239,232202,544FRB (U.S.)
Wells Fargo272,426218,102231,921221,005FRB (U.S.)
CSFB Securties/DLJ103,751109,012163,600130,900SEC (U.S.)
State Street Co.69,29860,899143,666131,251SEC (U.S.)
KeyCorp87,16583,34479,91365,364FRB (U.S.)
National City88,53587,12159,92657,349FRB (U.S.)
ABN Amro North Am96,75363,74352,20353,520FRB (U.S.)
Mellon Financial Corp.50,56448,22745,05854,932FRB (U.S.)
Metropolitan Life255,018225,23213,47720,834NYID/SEC (U.S.)

 Selected end-of-year balance sheet, derivatives and regulatory data, ranked by magnitude of notional OTC derivatives contracts outstanding in 2000 and denominated in millions of nominal U.S. dollars, for a sample of the 50 financial firms most active in OTC derivatives transactions and serving as counterparties to U.S. financial institutions, including financial and bank holding companies (FHC/BHC), insurance/reinsurance firms and U.S. housing GSEs, in 1999 and 2000. Data are listed for domestic or international parent of U.S. securities firm or FHC/BHC when data are unavailable on subsidiary, with associated primary regulator of parent institution and country of origin. Primary regulators for firms in the sample are: Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), New York and other U.S. state insurance departments (NYID), coordinated through National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Kreditwesen (Federal Banking Supervisory Office (BAKred)), Banking and Financial Regulatory Committee, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Finance/Banking Commission of Banque de France (CRBF/CM), Commission Fédérale des Banques (Swiss Federal Banking Commission), Financial Services Authority (FSA), Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Ministry of Corporate and Consumer Affairs Canada (OSFI), Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB), and Office of Financial Housing Enterprises Oversight (OFHEO).

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