Liquidity
Fund industry bristles at rush to re-write MMF rules
ICI questions regulators’ assumptions about the role MMFs played in Covid-19 liquidity crunch
Currenex class action faces hurdles, say legal experts
Case could raise questions around statutes of limitations and damages calculations
Monitoring intraday liquidity risks in a real-time gross settlement system
This paper proposes an intraday liquidity risk indicator (LRI) for each participant in a real-time gross settlement system (RTGS).
JSCC turns to commercial banks in rejig of liquidity reserves
Funds stashed at the Bank of Japan down 31% on the previous quarter
EU banks eye debt issuance as central bank funding winds down
The projected increase would not be sufficient to replace TLTROs maturing in 2023, EBA report finds
A new metric for liquidity add-ons: easy as ADV, but better
Proposed measure allows brokers to calculate stable, stock-specific liquidity add-ons
GFXC set to tackle reject codes
Co-vice-chair Neill Penney says group will seek to bring clarity to codes assigned to rejected FX trades
Securities market frenzy drives up mid-sized European banks' systemic risk
Nordea’s underwriting activity jumped by almost 7,000% in 2020
Fed’s repo facility won’t end US Treasury woes, experts say
Dealer facility does little to address root causes of recent liquidity shocks
Safety first: UK set to keep ring-fencing but may ease rules
There is also pressure to make changes to tackle banks’ overexposure to retail debt due to the rules
Nomura’s LCR rebounds after early-year dip
Cooling cash outflows at the ratio's denominator compounded HQLAs increase
Capital One’s Tier 1 leverage ratio climbs 70bp in Q2
Higher AT1 reserves helped boost the leverage adequacy to 12.4%
Banks and HFTs team up to solve exchange outage dilemma
Hopes that ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ can break first-mover disadvantage for liquidity providers
NSCC caught $600m short during meme-stock frenzy
Worst-case losses would have wiped out the CCP’s available liquid resources on one day in Q1
At TD and RBC, higher deposits weigh on LCR
Higher net cash outflows in Q2 keep liquidity coverage pressures up
LCR rises for EU banks in Q1, but liquidity strategies diverge
Eurozone banks are still hoarding liquidity, but as vaccines take effect a rethink may be needed
Wells Fargo’s off-balance-sheet exposures up $54bn
Total OBS exposures across the US largest systemically important institutions hit $3.04trn in Q1
Market fragmentation – The impacts of multiple rates and conventions
A forum of industry leaders discusses key developments in benchmark reform, and the strategic, operational and technological challenges involved in Libor transition
Quant fund aims to tame bitcoin, and 39 other digital assets
Ex-Morgan Stanley, Winton vets reimagine institutional risk management for volatile crypto markets
Commonwealth Bank’s LCR dips 13% as liquidity buffer shrinks
The Australian bank reported liquidity assets of A$171 billion, down 6% from the previous quarter
The US Treasury’s great market makeover
Changes to regulation will need to take account of evolving market structure
Dealers split on role of Japan’s term rate
Isda AGM: Japanese corporates continue to eye “fragile” JPY term rate, despite concerns
SocGen’s cash pile grew to €163bn in Q1
Central bank deposits surge while other HQLAs shrink
The trade-off between liquidity risk and counterparty risk in money market networks
The authors examine how liquidity is exchanged in different types of Colombian money market networks (ie, secured, unsecured and the central bank’s repurchase networks) as registered in the local financial market infrastructure.