News in Systemic Risk: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (10 a.m. ET) February 26, 2020 Financial stability committees and the countercyclical capital buffer (Rochelle M. Edge, Nellie Liang; Deutsche Bundesbank) Asian Banks from DBS to HSBC are bracing for bad loans to spike as coronavirus outbreak batters region's economies (Chad Bray; PoliticoPro, South China Morning Post) JPMorgan Eyes Plan to Break Stigma of Fed's Discount Window (Christopher Condon, Shahien Nasiripour; Bloomberg) The Hedge Fund Industry is Bigger (and has Performed Better) Than You Think (Daniel Barth, Juha Joenvaara, Mikko Kauppila, Russ Wermers; Office of Financial Research) Illiquidity in Intermediate Portfolios: Evidence from Large Hedge Funds (Daniel Barth, Phillip Monin; Office of Financial Research) BoE to impose Libor-linked collateral penalties (CentralBanking) How expectations of households and firms can impact the effectiveness of central bank communication (Betsy Bersson, Patrick Hürtgen, Matthias Paustian; Deutsche Bundesbank) Related Stories High School Students Visit Yale SOM for Introduction to Careers in Business and Economics Visiting Yale, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Hails Program on Financial Stability Program on Financial Stability Receives $7.5 million