The Clearing House Association Issues Title II White Paper and Simulation Report

• TCH issues a report on its OLA Resolution Simulation Exercise
• TCH issues white paper outlining Title II “single-point-of-entry” private sector recapitalization

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Clearing House Association (TCH) has released (1) a report on TCH’s recently-concluded Title II OLA-Resolution Simulation exercise; and (2) a white paper detailing how Title II and the single-point-of-entry approach can be used to resolve a large, complex financial institution.

TCH’s Title II OLA-Resolution Simulation exercise – which took place on November 8 and 9, 2012 and was attended by over 160 industry leaders, former regulators and legal experts – simulated the failure of a large U.S.-based global banking organization and its resolution under the Title II single-point-of-entry approach. The report details what those who participated in the Simulation Exercise witnessed firsthand – which is that a single-point-of-entry private sector recapitalization can resolve a large, complex financial institution in a manner that is orderly and which preserves financial stability and fully protects taxpayers from loss.

The white paper provides a more detailed analysis of the workability and benefits of a Title II single-point-of-entry approach. The paper argues that Title II provides regulators with an important safety valve to use in the event that a large, complex financial institution fails and ordinary resolution frameworks prove inadequate to protect financial stability. The paper asserts that Title II effectively ends the perceived “Too-Big-To-Fail” problem in the United States by requiring that shareholders lose their entire investment, creditors bear all the remaining losses, culpable management is terminated and no cost is imposed on the taxpayer.

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