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- Banks need sufficient liquidity—cash and other assets that may be easily and immediately converted into cash—to meet their financial obligations, such as when households withdraw deposits or businesses tap credit lines.
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Aug 12, 2008 · A bank should actively manage liquidity risk exposures and funding needs within and across legal entities, business lines and currencies, taking into account legal, regulatory and operational limitations to the transferability of liquidity.
- T.Vijay Kumar
This paper is organized around the following questions: • What is liquidity at a bank? • Why do we care about it? • Why are banks prone to runs? • How can banks achieve adequate...
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Why is liquidity important? When asset values deteriorate and monetary policies become tighter, it increases liquidity risk for banks. With a history of bank failures due to inadequate balance sheet management, commercial banks are now required to manage their liquidity risk through effective asset liability management (ALM).
Feb 28, 2022 · A bank’s ability to be able to meet its payments and withdrawal demands is how it remains liquid, reducing the risk of bankruptcy. Due to banks being interconnected, the downfall of one bank can quickly spread throughout the economy. This was evident during the financial crash of 2008.
Aug 14, 2019 · The LCR requires the largest banks to maintain “high-quality liquid assets” (HQLA) sufficient to sustain a liquidity freeze up to 30 days. Because of their simpler structure, medium-sized banks are required to hold HQLA in an amount intended to cover 21 days of stress.
Aug 22, 2024 · The LCR mandates banks to hold high-quality liquid assets that can be readily converted to cash to meet their net cash outflows over a 30-day stress-test scenario, while the NSFR requires...
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Jul 12, 2019 · We find that banks have adopted a wide range of HQLA compositions and show that this empirical finding is consistent with a risk-return framework that hinges on banks' aversion to liquidity and interest rate risks.
