What if sustained funding and credit pressure forces Japanese megabanks to shrink overseas lending?
Sustained funding-cost and credit pressure forces megabanks to shrink overseas lending and exit non-core foreign markets, a deglobalization of Japanese bank balance sheets that tightens dollar credit in Asia-Pacific.
how we built this number — every step
The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Sustained funding-cost and credit pressure forces megabanks to shrink overseas lending and exit non-core foreign markets, a deglobalization of Japanese bank balance sheets that tightens dollar credit in Asia-Pacific. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — FX carry appetite ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Financial conditions ▲ · Global growth ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.
If it happens — the markets it would move
Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.8% hist -6.25–+1.3% · other way +23.24% (n=12) |
| 2 | High-yield credit HYG 📈 chart | Rate | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.77–-0.01% · other way -0.23% (n=12) |
| 3 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% hist -11.54–+4.01% · other way -3.1% (n=10) |
| 4 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -9.59–+1.59% · other way +9.75% (n=11) |
| 5 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.4% hist +0.1–+0.34% · other way -7.07% (n=12) |
| 6 | Financials XLF 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.26–+0.01% · other way -0.27% (n=12) |
| 7 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.3% hist -12.51–+3.19% · other way +2.79% (n=11) |
| 8 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.82–+0.15% · other way +0.63% (n=12) |
| 9 | JPMorgan JPM 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.46–+0.53% · other way +0.99% (n=12) |
| 10 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.24–-0.06% · other way +0.24% (n=12) |
| 11 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.3% hist -3.53–+1.1% · other way -0.66% (n=12) |
| 12 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.2% hist -5.9–+4.45% · other way +23.11% (n=10) |
| 13 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.2% hist -1.06–+0.26% · other way -0.75% (n=12) |
| 14 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% model prior · unmeasured |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -10.5% · 5d -7.9% | 77% | 13 | 0.47 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -10.9% · 5d -5.7% | 80% | 15 | 0.45 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -7.9% · 5d -4.5% | 71% | 21 | 0.35 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AUD AUD | SHORT | -1.0% · 5d -0.3% | 65% | 37 | 0.29 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d -0.0% | 68% | 37 | 0.28 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MSTR MSTR | SHORT | -5.2% · 5d -2.9% | 66% | 38 | 0.26 | ✓ matches cascade |
| TRY TRY | SHORT | -3.1% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 59% | 37 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -0.1% | 59% | 37 | 0.17 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.6% · 5d -1.3% | 59% | 39 | 0.15 | ✓ matches cascade |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.7% · 5d +0.4% | 57% | 40 | 0.11 | · |
| 10y yield DGS10 | SHORT | -2bp · 5d +0bp ↺ fades | 54% | 40 | 0.07 | · |
| Gold XAU | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -0.7% | 52% | 38 | 0.04 | · |
| XLF XLF | LONG | +0.1% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades | 51% | 38 | 0.01 | ⚠ differs |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.9% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades | 51% | 38 | 0.01 | ⚠ differs |