Dodd-Frank will hit Asian banks onshore in the US

Dodd-Frank will require some foreign banks to set up intermediate holding companies for their US operations and also subject them to enhanced liquidity, supervision and stress testing. How will Asian banks be affected given the flow of US dollars from these operations to Asia?

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Dodd (r) and Frank, the architects of the eponymous bill

Ignoring Dodd-Frank isn’t an option for Asian banks. As one senior figure from the Hong Kong office of a major US firm says: “They need to thoroughly check their exposures – any of my Asian counterparties which don’t investigate whether trading with me brings them into contact with Dodd-Frank isn’t doing their job.”  

Market moves suggest that most Asian banks are in fact working furiously to understand the extraterritorial impacts of an act which although born in the USA has a global impact. For

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