Foreign Currency Bank Funding and Global Factors

May 9, 2018

The literature on the drivers of capital flows stresses the prominent role of global financial factors. Recent empirical work, however, highlights how this role varies across countries and time, and this heterogeneity is not well understood. We revisit this question by focusing on financial intermediaries’ funding flows in different currencies. A concise portfolio model shows that the sign and magnitude of the response of foreign currency funding flows to global risk factors depend on the financial intermediary’s pre-existing currency exposure.

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Symbiotics

Symbiotics is an investment company specialized in emerging, sustainable and inclusive finance. Since inception in 2005, it has invested USD 3.6 billion in more than 300 institutions in over 70 emerging countries, working as an advisor or manager of about 30 investment funds and many institutional investors. The firm is headquartered in Switzerland, with offices in Cape Town, London, Zurich, Mexico City and Singapore, regrouping over 100 employees globally. Symbiotics currently reaches out, indirectly through its investments, to nearly 1,600,000 small enterprises and low income households at the base of the pyramid in emerging and frontier markets.

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Symbiotics is an investment company specialized in emerging, sustainable and inclusive finance. Since inception in 2005, it has invested USD 3.6 billion in more than 300 institutions in over 70 emerging countries, working as an advisor or manager of about 30 investment funds and many institutional investors. The firm is headquartered in Switzerland, with offices in Cape Town, London, Zurich, Mexico City and Singapore, regrouping over 100 employees globally. Symbiotics currently reaches out, indirectly through its investments, to nearly 1,600,000 small enterprises and low income households at the base of the pyramid in emerging and frontier markets.

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