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Will the NIF require counterparty information? Why?  E-mail
Counterparty information is required. Only by mapping the network of relationships among participants will analysts be able to understand and simulate the behavior of the system as a whole. It is these inter-relationships that make the financial system too complex to be represented by a simple sum of its individual institutions. This is the core of the macroprudential problem.