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EFTA00610315 | EFTA00610319 PERSPECTIVE RESEARCH a less complex and lower-risk financial network Efforts are underway internationally to extend the scope and reach of central counterparty clearing, in particular to ensure it covers transactions in complex overthe-counter derivative instruments, such as CDS (D. Duffle and H. Zhu, manuscript in preparation). In parallel, there are international efforts to reduce the dimensionality of derivatives contracts by eliminating redundant trades and through netting. This redundancy might arise either because contracts have been reassigned to participants (but the claim not extinguished) or because there are perfectly offsetting bilateral transactions between two parties that can be netted. For example, the stock of CDS contracts has already been reduced by around S25 trillion since December 2007 as a result of such netting arrangemenu. Looking forward, there may be more sophisticated multilateral netting algorithms that can be used to reduce further derivatives balances. Shaping the topology of the financial network The analytic model outlined earlier demonstrates that the topology of the financial sector's balance sheet has fundamental implications for the state and dynamics of systemic risk. From a public policy perspective, two topological features are key's. First, diversity across the financial system. In the run-up to the crisis, and in the pursuit of diversification, banks' balance sheets and risk management systems became increasingly homogenous. For example, banks became increasingly reliant on wholesale funding on the liabilities side of the balance sheet; in structured credit on the assets side of their balance sheet; and managed the resulting risks using the same value-at-risk models. This desire for diversification was individually rational from a risk perspective. But it came at the expense of lower diversity across the system as whole, thereby increasing systemic risk. Homogeneity bred fragility (N. Beale and colleagues, manuscript in preparation). In regulating the financial system, little effort has as yet been put into assessing the system-wide characteristics of the network, such as the diversity of its aggregate balance sheet and risk management models. Even less effort has been put into providing regulatory incentives to promote diversity of balance sheet structures, business models and risk management systems. In rebuilding and maintaining the financial system, this systemic diversity objective should probably be given much greater prominence by the regulatory community. Second, modularity within the financial system. The structure of many non-financial networks is explicitly and intentionally modular. This includes the design of personal computers and the world wide web and the management of forests and utility grids. Modular configurations prevent contagion infecting the whole network in the event of nodal failure. By limiting the potential for cascades, modularity protects the systemic resilience of both natural and constructed networks. The same principles apply in banking. That is why there is an ongoing debate on the merits of splitting banks, either to limit their size (to curtail the strength of cascades following failure) or to limit their activities (to curtail the potential for cross-contamination within firms). The recently proposed Volcker rule in the United States, quarantining risky hedge fund, private equity and proprietary trading activity from other areas of banking business, is one example of modularity in practice. In the United Kingdom, the new government have recently set up a Royal Commission to investigate the case for encouraging modularity and diversity in banking ecosystems, as a means of buttressing systemic resilience. It took a generation for ecological models to adapt. 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