Reestruturação do sistema de pagamentos brasileiro: o caso da clearing de câmbio da BM&F. / Brazilian payment system restructuring: the case of the BM&F foreign exchange clearinghouse.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

This study had the goal to clarify the importance of the Foreign Exchange Clearinghouse related with the new project of restructuring the Brazilian System of Payments (BSP). With this purpose it was observed how the old payment system operated, with the risks assumed by the Central Bank, mainly those associated with the systemic risk. In the new project, the Clearinghouses have a fundamental role to avoid the systemic risk. The data used in the research allowed to simulate and compare the effects on the foreign exchange market, in the presence or in the absence of the Clearinghouse. To understand how the economy was before the implantation of the new project, it was done a brief analysis about the instability which the bank system was affected and the way that the government tried to control it. To guarantee more security in the whole payment system, it was created the Reserve Transfer System (RTS) that adopt a process of Real-Time Gross Settlement, achieving the goal of eliminating the possibility of credit risk. The Foreign Exchange Clearinghouse has a fundamental role in the new BSP because works adopting the principle of the net settlement, reducing the capital necessity to do financial transactions. A qualitative analysis had a purpose to show the effects due in the foreign exchange market and the Clearinghouse function in this new system. It was observed that the interbank foreign exchange market has been showed a great equilibrium in the number of contracts bought and sold, but also in their values. The data obtained presented a trend of raising in the total negotiated and in the payments done via RTS. The Clearinghouse has been showed that its importance is increasing in the new BSP, with the volume of contracts raising in both settlement D+1 and D+2. It is noted that in the first five months of existence, only 15% of whole currency negotiated was effectively transfered within institutions, reducing in a considerable manner the total of currency required and, in consequence, reducing the possibility of systemic risk. Although the diminishing of the time for transferences and of the certainty about the financial settlement, one of the main problems are the high costs to operate in this system. To consolidate the Clearinghouse importance as an institution, it has been done studies to launch new products to take care of the demand like, as example, the possibility of financial settlement intraday and the negotiation with other currencies. The BM&F Exchange Clearinghouse is the first one in the world that transacts currency and its success may influence other countries that can adopt the same system.

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câmbio (economia) economia monetária. central bank brazilian system of payment foreign exchange bolsa de mercadorias clearing house banco central

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