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Napier University
Msc Accounting and Finance
Module Finance management
Student no - 08010819Module no ACC11105
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The recent credit crunch commenced in august 2007 in the us sub prime
mortgage and when borrowers became defaulters then it start effecting to
other counties like Europe, Asia, Australia, and other countries. There is not
one reason of the credit crunch in the UK but there are multiple factors which
have cause the credit crunch such as the sub prime mortgage, lax lending,
decline in bank capital, fear of risk default and increasing interest rates.
In 2008, Wallace, Avis, and Smith say exactly the credit crunch is a situation
when borrowing money comes at a higher interest and borrower has to pay
higher cost. Similarly, in 1994 Kaufman explains back in the 1960s, I have
introduced the term credit crunch to explain a sudden shortage in the flow of
credit. Clair and Tucker(1993) argue that many bankers, legislators,
Borrowers, regulators and economists have expressed their views about the
causes of the credit crunch and each has described the problem and potential
solutions differently. Wallace and Smith (2008) state that definitely, subprime
mortgages are main causes in the ongoing credit crunch and they also add
that there is not the only contributor to the problem. In reality, the credit crunch
is the end result of lax lending by the banks and lenders in spite of this
consumers spending beyond their earnings for way too long.
Bernanke and Lown (1991) define the credit crunch as a decline in the supply
of credit that is unusually large for a given period of the business cycle. Credit
normally decreases during a recession, but an unusually large contraction
could be seen as the credit crunch. Wallace, Avis, and Smith (2008) Say
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literally the credit crunch is a time when borrowing money comes at a higher
risk and a higher cost.
ANALYSES OF THE STATEMENT
The statements says credit is the result of high inflated profit of bank and high
bonuses to top management, to evaluate this statement will check start of
recent credit crunch. The recent credit crunch commence in august 2007 in
the US sub prime mortgage and when borrowers became defaulters then it
start effecting to other counties like Europe , Asia , Australia, and other
countries.
Whether the credit crisis has caused by the banks reporting high inflated
profit in the last financial year, and paying inflated bonuses to the top
management.
Previous study showed There is not one reason of the credit crunch in uk but
there are multiple factor which has cause there, like to get sub prime
mortgage, lax lending, decline in bank capital, fear of risk defaulters, increase
interest rates and liquidity problems. Among these sub prime mortgage of US
and UK is considered most responsible factor.
The subprime means the borrower who does not meet the criteria for prime
mortgage rates because this borrower has not good credit history and in this
situation the chance of default is high or they may fail to pay their monthly
instalment of loan, thus to reduce risk bank charge high interest rate.
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expectation of high profit at low risk but in 2007 bursting of US housing
bubble, UK investor had to sustain heavy loss in their investment. according to
one report ofYalman Onaran that subprime asset write-downs and credit
losses at more than 100 of the worlds biggest banks and securities firms, in
which including losses of US$19.5 billion in HSBC, US$15.2 billion in RBS,
US$7 billion in HBOS, US$6.3 billion in Barclays, US$ 2.7 billion in Lloyds
TSB, so in this way total loss reached at US$396 billion. And this situation
formed instability in the financial market.
Other reason is lax lending and decline in bank capital. This is one of the
most responsible reason for the credit crunch in UK financial sectors. Because
banks and other lending institutions financial report and data shows that when
there was no money crisis, the lending figure of banks ware so high. They
provided loan to that borrower who did not meet the criteria of prime mortgage
and to consumers with poor credit history, But as the shortage of credit or
liquidity started the heavy loss happened due to defaults and payment
delinquencies. And this situation stimulated the capital or liquidity shortage
and consequently this self-destructive cycle generate slowing economy,
overall falling stocks, increasing fuel prices, stagnant to negative job growth,
the housing market slowdown, and, the subprime mortgage disaster and all
these have led to credit crunch in financial system.
But the statement says that bank reporting high inflated profit in the last
financial year, how its created by the banks? It can be seen that the income
statement of different banks of last financial year that there was high profit
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generated different banks, like Lloyds TSB reported 3.8 billions pre tax profit
in 2007, which was 17% more than 2006. same HSBC 11.5bn , Royal bank
of Scotland which owns Net West earned 9.3bn, Barclays 6.8bn and Halifax
owns HBOS 5.4bn. In one estimation the combine profit of all UK bank was
more then 40 billion for last year.
This profit was generated by investment in sub prime mortgages in US and UK
and lax landing to the high risky borrows. In past many bank , and investors
invested a lot in US sub prime mortgage like (MBS) mortgage back security,
which emphasis on securitization with good yield on investment. This was
tradable in the open markets. These securities depended on the cash flows
coming during every month, with no missed payments or mortgage defaults.
And other side lax lending or easy loan was the one reason of high profit. In
which bank and other lending institution was lending to sub prime at high
interest at high risk At process of lending banks ignored the income situation
of borrower and capacity of pay back of loan and instalment of loan.
In 2007 most of banks and lending institute generate inflated profit by not
properly considering possibility of bad dept or defaulter. They did not make
proper provision of bad dept or they show the less depreciation than actually
should be. In other word banks and lenders were so optimistic about their
landing policies. Other side in the duration of this high level profit some bank
used their capital to acquire other financial instates or banks like Barclays buy
ABN AMRO with the offer of 91 billion. This kind of deal block big number of
capital of any bank. Other matter is bonus last year many bank paid quite big
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amount to their top management like Barclays executive BobDiamond got his
pay and bonus 21 million pound. And in April city banks workers received
16bn as their bonus which was same as 2007.in this way, the total bonus of
financial sector was 28bn which is quite big amount. All this kind of out flow
of liquid capital create the shortage or decline in the capital in the bank.
So in credit crunch financial situation became more worst when housing
bubble busted and because of critical situation of sub prime mortgages UK
bank and other investors has to sustain loss in their investment. Other hand
lax landing to sub primes borrowers at high interest and when mortgage
borrowers had to switch from their initial low fixed rate payments to higher
variable rates, they faced difficulties to pay their instalments. And this increase
intensity of defaults and delinquencies, thus result of this situation was decline
in security of sub prime loan so investor loosed their confidence and assumed
that they will loss their money. So they reduced lending at high risk. And this
whole situation created credit crunch in the money market.
In the credit crunch every causes and reason is linked with each other. Below
diagram help us to understand the whole linkage from start of credit crunch to
current time.
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So credit crunch started in US. Nobody could guess that housing problem in
US can affect the borrowers of UK economy. Last year there was rapid growth
in financial market in US and UK and banks ware keen to lend. With this
intention they target the borrowers who did not have their own houses or
property and offer them cheap and easy introductory mortgage at low interest
rate which called sub prime mortgage. After that mortgage were sold to other
bank and investors in the world through (MBS). When ownership got changed
this new security holder increased interest rate and borrowers got problems
with instalment. During this house prices stared falling and investors realised
the risk and minimize landing. From this stage credit crunch shows its
presence, in UK northern rock was the first British bank who became victim
because it was not able to borrow money from wholesale market for business
and lending activities. Because of this northern rock immediate needed money
from bank of England. As this news came out in society, people got afraid and
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started withdrawing their money and large of deposits from the banks. As
result it create liquidity and capital shortage in monitory market. Other side in
US house prices constantly falling down and mortgage holder and borrower
hand over house keys to lender institutes. So bank and other investor had to
suffer loss of billion pounds. After this banks were more reluctant to lend
money to rebuilt their finance but with higher interest rate and without high
risk. So people started facing difficulties to get credit from the banks. And
credit crunch became so impact full in world of financial market.
In recent finance market there are sharp fall in the profit of almost all the
banks like Barclays declared 33% in their profit with 2.75bn compared with
4.1bn for same period of last year. HSBCs profit drop by 28% compared then
last year. Alliance & Leicester drop with 99% in their profit and reported interim
pre-tax profits of 2m, down from 290m. HBOS declared 72% fall in their pre
tax profit. And Lloyds TSB shows 70% decline of first six month profit in this
year.
Conclusion
From the above study it has now been clear that the current credit crises is not
fully resulted by the banks reporting the inflated profit in the last financial year,
and paying inflated bonuses to the top management. Of course these factors
have played role in the credit crunch but profit is the result of that activities. In
last years by investing in sub prime mortgage and lax lending at high interest
lending banks generated high profit. And about high bonuses, that is
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depending on profit. So it can not be main reason of the credit crunch. The
previous research and study has shown that the credit crunch is the result of
multiple factors those negatively affecting financial institutions, capability to
provide credit. While financial institutions are unable to deal with these factors
efficiently at the same time. Those multiple factors are lax lending, liquidity
problem, financial market uncertainty, investors loosing their confidence, and
subprime mortgage market crisis.
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