Haftungsausschluss: CFDs sind komplexe Instrumente und bergen aufgrund der Hebelwirkung ein hohes Risiko, schnell Geld zu verlieren.
Sie sollten sich überlegen, ob Sie die Funktionsweise von CFDs verstehen und ob Sie es sich leisten können, das hohe Risiko einzugehen, Ihr Geld zu verlieren.
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Bank of China
Not the central bank of China. That’s the People’s Bank of China. Bank of China is one of the four big state-owned commercial banks (alongside ICBC, China Construction Bank, and Agricultural Bank of China), and it has a peculiar history that explains its global footprint.
Founded in 1912, Bank of China was originally the country’s central bank and its main foreign-exchange institution. After the 1949 revolution, those functions split off, but Bank of China kept its overseas branch network and its specialisation in cross-border business. Today it has more international branches than any other Chinese bank: Hong Kong, London, New York, Frankfurt, Singapore, dozens more.
It’s listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai, sits among the world’s ten largest banks by assets, and is a designated Global Systemically Important Bank.
Example: A Chinese exporter selling solar panels to Europe likely settles the trade through Bank of China’s Frankfurt or Luxembourg branch, taking advantage of in-house EUR-CNY conversion and trade-finance services. That kind of work; boring, high-volume cross-border plumbing; is where Bank of China still has structural edge over its domestic competitors.
Bank of England
The UK’s central bank, founded in 1694. That makes it one of the oldest still-operating central banks anywhere, beaten only by Sweden’s Riksbank. Nicknamed “the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street” after its London address.
Three big jobs. First, the Monetary Policy Committee sets Bank Rate eight times a year, with a 2% inflation target and a remit issued by the Chancellor. Second, the Prudential Regulation Authority; housed inside the Bank; regulates banks, building societies, and insurers. Third, the Financial Policy Committee monitors systemic risk and can deploy macroprudential tools like countercyclical capital buffers.
The Bank also issues banknotes (in England and Wales; Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes are issued separately) and operates the UK’s wholesale payment system.
Example: In late September 2022, after the Truss government’s mini-budget triggered a violent sell-off in long-dated gilts, the Bank stepped in with emergency gilt purchases to stabilise the market. Pension funds running liability-driven investment strategies were facing forced sales that could have collapsed the long end. The Bank’s intervention was small in size, decisive in effect, and over within two weeks.
Bank of Japan
Japan’s central bank, established in 1882. The BoJ has spent the last three decades being the world’s monetary-policy laboratory, mostly because it had to. After the asset bubble collapsed in 1990, conventional easing didn’t work, and the BoJ has been improvising ever since.
The list of firsts is long. First major central bank to hit zero rates. First to do quantitative easing (2001). First to buy ETFs and REITs as part of monetary policy. First to cap bond yields directly through yield-curve control (2016). First in the modern era to push policy rates negative.
In 2024, after years of inflation finally returning to Japan, the BoJ ended negative rates, abandoned yield-curve control, and started normalising. The yen, which had been trading at 38-year lows against the dollar, became the centre of one of the year’s biggest macro stories; a sharp rally followed by a global carry-trade unwind in early August.
Example: When the BoJ raised rates from -0.1% to a range of 0% to 0.1% in March 2024, it ended a stretch of negative rates that had run for eight years. The yen still didn’t strengthen meaningfully until later that year, when actual policy divergence with the Fed began to narrow.
Bank rate
The interest rate at which central banks lend money to commercial banks.
Bank reserve
Funds held by banks to ensure they have enough liquidity to meet customer needs and for emergencies.
Bank Run
A bank run is what happens when too many depositors lose faith at the same time and rush to withdraw their money. The mechanics are brutal in their simplicity. Banks don’t keep most of your deposits in a vault; they lend them out. So when withdrawal requests spike past a certain point, the bank can’t meet them, not because it’s insolvent, necessarily, but because its assets are illiquid. Loans don’t unwind on demand.
The terrifying thing about runs is that they’re rational at the individual level and catastrophic in aggregate. If you think the bank might fail, getting your money out before everyone else is the smart move. Once enough people think that way, the prophecy fulfils itself.
Modern bank runs don’t look like the queues outside Northern Rock in 2007 anymore. They happen on apps, in minutes, with billions of dollars moving before anyone shows up at a branch.
Example: Silicon Valley Bank, March 2023. Depositors pulled $42 billion in a single day after concerns about the bank’s bond portfolio went viral on Twitter and in startup founder WhatsApp groups. The bank was shut down by regulators the next morning. The whole thing took about 36 hours from the first whisper to the FDIC takeover.
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