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Abbreviation for Negative interest rate policy.
The system of credit creation and intermediation that involves entities and activities fully or partially outside the conventional banking system.


NIRP is a policy of a central bank to keep (short-term) interest rates in the economy as low as it may. The central bank effects this by reducing its own interest charges for borrowings by financial institutions or its payments of interest on deposits taken from those institutions not merely to a 0% nominal rate but to some actually negative nominal rate.


Note that the [[real interest rate]] in the economy may be negative or positive irrespective of the nominal rate being negative, it being the difference between rate of inflation in the economy and interest rates paid or received.
Some non-bank entities and transactions have the capacity to operate on a large scale in ways that create bank-like risks to financial stability (for example, longer-term credit extension based on short-term funding and leverage).  


==See also==
Such risk creation may take place at an entity level but it can also form part of a complex chain of transactions, in which leverage and maturity transformation occur in stages, and in ways that create multiple forms of feedback into the regulated banking system.


* [[ZIRP]]
For this reason regulators are taking increasing interest in the activities of the shadow banking system.
 
 
== See also ==
* [[Shadow bank]]
* [[Bank for International Settlements]]
* [[Financial Stability Board]]
* [[Bank]]
* [[Intermediation]]
* [[Credit]]
* [[Maturity transformation]]
* [[Non-bank financial intermediaries]]
* [[Putting a limit on losses]]
 
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]

Revision as of 15:25, 31 October 2016

The system of credit creation and intermediation that involves entities and activities fully or partially outside the conventional banking system.


Some non-bank entities and transactions have the capacity to operate on a large scale in ways that create bank-like risks to financial stability (for example, longer-term credit extension based on short-term funding and leverage).

Such risk creation may take place at an entity level but it can also form part of a complex chain of transactions, in which leverage and maturity transformation occur in stages, and in ways that create multiple forms of feedback into the regulated banking system.

For this reason regulators are taking increasing interest in the activities of the shadow banking system.


See also