Global Liquidity - Issues for Surveillance

Global Liquidity - Issues for Surveillance
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498343651

The paper starts by presenting evidence of commonality in global financial conditions. This commonality is then related to specific drivers of global financial conditions through a range of transmission channels, including cross-border banking and portfolio flows. Empirical analysis shows a range of price and quantity factors, including measures of risk, bank leverage, and interest rates in financial centers, to drive in part these flows. Country specific policies, including exchange rate and prudential frameworks, are shown to affect the transmission of global conditions. Much remains unknown though, including how evolving structures of global funding, changing institutions, and ongoing financial innovations affect the mechanics of liquidity creation, the channels of liquidity transmission, and potential risks going forward.

Global Liquidity - Credit and Funding Indicators

Global Liquidity - Credit and Funding Indicators
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2013-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498341500

This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented

Liquidity Risk Management in Banks

Liquidity Risk Management in Banks
Author: Roberto Ruozi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642295819

The recent turmoil on financial markets has made evident the importance of efficient liquidity risk management for the stability of banks. The measurement and management of liquidity risk must take into account economic factors such as the impact area, the timeframe of the analysis, the origin and the economic scenario in which the risk becomes manifest. Basel III, among other things, has introduced harmonized international minimum requirements and has developed global liquidity standards and supervisory monitoring procedures. The short book analyses the economic impact of the new regulation on profitability, on assets composition and business mix, on liabilities structure and replacement effects on banking and financial products.​

The Impact of Global Liquidity on Financial Landscapes and Risks in the ASEAN-5 Countries

The Impact of Global Liquidity on Financial Landscapes and Risks in the ASEAN-5 Countries
Author: Tao Sun
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513543733

This paper analyzes the transmission of global liquidity to the ASEAN-5 countries (ASEAN-5), including the impact on financial landscapes and risks to financial stability. It finds that global liquidity transmission and changing financial landscapes have contributed to increases in risks to financial stability in ASEAN-5. Therefore, policymakers in ASEAN-5 should prepare for possible liquidity tightening, strengthen regulation of nonbanks, and establish a comprehensive financial stability framework. A number of couontries are well-advanced in this process.

Enhancing Financial Sector Surveillance in Low-Income Countries - Background Paper

Enhancing Financial Sector Surveillance in Low-Income Countries - Background Paper
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2012-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498340660

This note provides an overview of the literature on the challenges posed by shallow financial systems for macroeconomic policy implementation. Countries with shallow markets are more likely to choose fixed exchange rates, less likely to use indirect measures as instruments of monetary policy, and to implement effective counter-cyclical fiscal policies. But causation appears to work in both directions, as policy stances can themselves affect financial development. Drawing on recent FSAP reports, the note also shows that shallow financial markets tend to increase foreign exchange, liquidity management, and concentration risks, posing risks for financial stability

Financial Sector Surveillance and the Mandate of the Fund

Financial Sector Surveillance and the Mandate of the Fund
Author: International Monetary Fund. Finance Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2010-04-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 149833766X

This paper reviews the Fund’s liquidity position. The review covers the Fund’s financial activities for the period September 11, 2009 through March 31, 2010, and also discusses recent developments likely to influence the Fund’s liquidity position. Against this backdrop, it examines the outlook for liquidity using the one-year Forward Commitment Capacity (FCC), the primary measure of the Fund’s liquidity, which is calculated taking into account supplementary resources made available under borrowing arrangements, including note purchase agreements.

Cross-Border Financial Surveillance

Cross-Border Financial Surveillance
Author: Marco A Espinosa-Vega
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1455200646

Effective cross-border financial surveillance requires the monitoring of direct and indirect systemic linkages. This paper illustrates how network analysis could make a significant contribution in this regard by simulating different credit and funding shocks to the banking systems of a number of selected countries. After that, we show that the inclusion of risk transfers could modify the risk profile of entire financial systems, and thus an enriched simulation algorithm able to account for risk transfers is proposed. Finally, we discuss how some of the limitations of our simulations are a reflection of existing information and data gaps, and thus view these shortcomings as a call to improve the collection and analysis of data on cross-border financial exposures.

Prudential Liquidity Regulation in Developing Countries

Prudential Liquidity Regulation in Developing Countries
Author: Sarah Sanya
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1463975767

This paper analyses the prudential liquidity management framework, in particular the quantitative indicators employed by the central bank of Rwanda in response to the domestic liquidity crisis in 2008/09. It emphasises that the quantitative methods used in the monitoring and assessment of systemic liquidity risk are inadequate because they did not signal the liquidity crises ex-post. There are quick gains to be made from augumenting the liquidity risk indicators with more dynamic liquidity stress tests so that compliance will be achieved through lengthening the maturities of both assets and liabilities on the balance sheet as opposed to simply holding more liquid assets. The paper recommends that policy emphasis shift toward reforms that strengthen systemic liquidity risk assesment, monetary policy implementation as well as improve the efficiency of Rwanda's financial system.