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to the larger financial system as systemic risk. For example, though<br />

Lehman Brothers was only the fourth largest investment bank in 2008<br />

and only about a third the size of the largest, its failure created repercussions<br />

throughout the financial sector and the larger economy (Wiggins,<br />

Piontek, and Metrick 2014). Recognizing that large or highly interconnected<br />

financial institutions may pose systemic risk, the Financial<br />

Stability Board designates firms that meet certain criteria as “systemically<br />

important financial institutions.”<br />

Percent<br />

100<br />

80<br />

Figure 6-v<br />

Concentration of Top 5 Banks, 2005–2014<br />

Switzerland<br />

Germany<br />

2014<br />

60<br />

Japan<br />

United Kingdom Euro Average<br />

40<br />

United States<br />

20<br />

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014<br />

Note: Assets of five largest banks as a share of total commercial banking assets shown. Euro<br />

Area includes Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, and Spain where<br />

data is available from 2005 to 2014. Total assets include total earning assets, cash and due<br />

from banks, foreclosed real estate, fixed assets, goodwill, other intangibles, current tax<br />

assets, deferred tax, discontinued operations, and other assets.<br />

Source: World Bank Global Financial Development Database.<br />

Glasserman and Loudis (2015) evaluate the risk of large banks<br />

using the five factors employed by the Basel Committee on Banking<br />

Supervision for designating global systemically important banks<br />

(G-SIBs): size, cross-jurisdictional activity, interconnectedness, substitutability,<br />

and complexity.1 The methodology assumes that the distress<br />

or failure of banks that are larger, operate in more countries, do more<br />

business with other financial institutions, provide services that are diffi-<br />

1 G-SIBs are designated based on a cut-off score determined based on the scores of a sample<br />

of banks. Banks in the sample include: the 75 largest global banks based on financial yearend<br />

Basel III leverage ratio exposure, banks designated as G-SIBs in the year before, and<br />

banks added by national supervisors using “supervisory judgement.” The cutoff score is then<br />

used to allocate banks to four buckets with different level of loss absorbency requirements,<br />

determined on an annual basis. There were about 90 banks in the sample in the end of 2014<br />

exercise. See: http://www.bis.org/bcbs/gsib/gsibs_dislosures_end2014.htm.<br />

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