Reuters
June 27, 2012
Five of the biggest banks in the United States are putting finishing touches on plans for going out of business as part of government-mandated contingency planning that could push them to untangle their complex operations.
Since the law allows regulators to go so far as to order a bank to divest subsidiaries if it cannot plan an orderly resolution in bankruptcy, the deadline is pushing even healthy institutions to start a multi-year process to untangle their complex global operations, according to industry consultants.
The plans, known as living wills, are due to regulators no later than July 1 under provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law designed to end too-big-to-fail bailouts by the government. The living wills could be as long as 4,000 pages.
?The resolution process is now going to be part of the cost-benefit analysis on where banks will do business,? said Dan Ryan, leader of the financial services regulatory practice at?PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. ?The complexity of the organizations will shrink.?
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