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Liquidity Risk Standards and Measurement
(& Liquidity Measures taken during & after the crisis)
23rd BSCEE Conference
Ohrid, 16 June2010
Jean-Philippe Svoronos
Senior Financial Sector Specialist
Financial Stability Institute
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Outline
Financial crisis and emergency measures
Lessons learned
International framework for liquidity risk measurement,
standards and monitoring (Dec 2009 consultative paper)
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FX and maturity mismatches: Optimistic assumptions
“Mitigating” factors:
• Access to short-term FX funding through subsidiaries of foreign banking
groups (E and C Europe), branches in the US (W Europe)
• Use of FX market rather than US funding markets
• “Diversification”: access funding markets in Asia for USD funding
Liquidity/credit risk assumptions:
• Structured bonds (securitization assumed to be liquid because highly rated
• Some private label MBSs (in USD) considered fully liquid and made part of
banks’ liquidity/treasury reserves
Underestimation/”hidden” liquidity risks
• Increasing complexity of products & lack of transparency
• “Shadow” banking system and use of OBS vehicles (SIVs)
• Secured funding always available provided you have good quality collateral.
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Triggers and transmission: the US subprime crisis
Strains in funding markets started in mid-2007: growing unease about the exposure
of US FIs to US subprime mortgages and related securitizations
Contagion spreads to European banks (large buyers of structured products and
large borrowers of USD)
Factors increasing uncertainty and contagion:
• complexity of products and off-balance sheet leverage (SIVs)
• “deleveraging” and fire sales
• increasing reliance on short-term funding and secured funding
Consequences:
• Liquidity dries up
• Shortening of interbank lending tenors
• Closures of markets for lengthy periods (e.g. “private label” MBSs, CP, etc…)
Several episodes destroy market confidence over time: Sept-Dec 2007, March
2008 and Sept 2008 to March 2009.
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Private sector responses to liquidity pressures
Uncertainty led to:
• Tightening of counterparty limits: less lending, shorter lending & more
expensive
• Hoarding and flight to quality (growth of bank deposits with the ECB,
fall in yields on US notes and Treasuries)
“Fire sales” of seized collateral (SIVs) increase falls in asset prices
Illiquid, fall in asset prices and one-sided markets meant:
• Hard and sometimes impossible to price in a reliable way
• Lack of visibility: unknown losses, size of hit to P&L unknown
US dollar shortages increased in Europe after failure of Lehman and
MMMF “breaking the buck”.
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Central Banks’ emergency measures
“Pre-Lehman” measures:
• Extraordinary market operations (outside of regular schedule, longer terms
and/or larger than usual amounts. Some 17 ECB operations between 9
August & 20 December 2007)
• 12 Dec. 2007 (FED):
• Introduction of a Term Auction Facility (TAF): gives depository institutions
(including foreign bank branches & subsidiaries) access to term funds via
auctions against a wider range of collateral
• Complementary USD term auctions by ECB and SNB funded by USD
swap lines with Federal Reserve (put in place the same day)
• Other measures (extending range of eligible collateral):
• FED for primary dealers:
• Term Securities Lending Facilities (TSLF) lending UST for 28 days
against high quality MBSs
• Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) overnight loans against
investment grade debt securities
• Bank of England (April 2008): Special Liquidity Scheme: asset swaps
(high quality illiquid assets versus UK Treasury bills)
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Governments and Central Banks’ emergency measures
“Post-Lehman” measures to address acute USD global shortage, impact on local currency
liquidity and seizing up of unsecured funding markets
Unprecedented range of measures to support financial institutions:
• Increase in deposit insurance to prevent bank runs
• Government guarantees on banks’ liabilities (prevent run on wholesale funding)
• Asset purchase or guarantee schemes to protect financial institutions from extreme
losses
• Recapitalizations with public funds
Measures to address FX currency shortages
• In some countries (Brazil, Korea, Mexico), wider use of FX reserves to help banks and
corporates
• Expansion of USD swap lines in number (2 to 14), size (unlimited for 4 central banks)
and reach (1 to 5 continents)
• Policy responses within euro and Swiss franc markets
• Swap lines between SNB, ECB, National Bank of Poland and Magyar Nemzeti
Bank
• Swap line between ECB and Nat. Bank of Denmark
• Repos between ECB and Hungarian and Polish central banks.
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Lessons learned
Markets:
• Even interbank markets and secured funding can freeze up
• Some key assumptions were misguided
• Interaction of market liquidity, credit risk, and funding liquidity under stress
misunderstood, under-appreciated
Current shifts in banks’ liquidity risk management
• Improved monitoring, analysis, stress testing of tenor and FX mismatches
• Centralization of collateral management, contingent liabilities and access to
central bank facilities
• More stringent counterparty limits
• Efforts to develop retail deposit bases and/or longer-term (more stable)
funding
Supervision
• Banks’ liquidity risk management needs improving
• Regulation & supervision of liquidity is just as crucial as capital adequacy
• Cross-border supervisory cooperation is essential for supervising liquidity at
large international banks.
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Objectives and components of liquidity supervision
Ensure the bank maintains sufficient liquidity
• cushion of unencumbered, high quality liquid assets
• withstand loss of both secured and unsecured funding sources
Key components of framework
• Standards
• Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) – 30 days horizon
• Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) – 1 year horizon
• Monitoring tools
• Contractual maturity mismatch
• Concentration of funding
• Available unencumbered assets
• Market-related monitoring tools.
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LCR – definition
Stock of high quality liquid assets
≥ 100%
Net cash outflows over a 30-day time period
Supervisory scenario (idiosyncratic and market-wide)
• 3-notch downgrade (triggers)
• partial loss of retail deposits
• loss of unsecured wholesale and secured, short-term
funding (except for ‘liquid’ assets per this standard)
• increased collateral calls and/or haircuts
• draws on committed lines, non-contractual obligations
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LCR – liquid assets (narrow & wider definitions)
Narrow definition
• Cash and central bank reserves that can be drawn in time of stress
• Marketable securities issued / guaranteed by sovereigns, central
banks, other PSEs, IMF, MDBs if:
• 0% risk weight under Basel II SA
• deep repo markets, and not issued by banks, other financial institutions
• Government or central bank debt issued in domestic currency where
the risk is taken, or by home country
Wider definition
• Level 1: assets eligible for narrow definition (at least 50% of the stock)
• Level 2: haircut of 20% (AA- corporate & covered bonds)
• Level 3: haircut of 40% (A- corporate or covered bonds)
BCBS decision to use broader definition pending on QIS results.
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LCR – net cash outflows (denominator)
Net cash outflows = cumulative expected cash outflows minus cumulative
expected cash inflows in a given time bucket under specified stress
scenario
Most ‘factors’ harmonized but some subject to national discretion
No double-counting with assets included in numerator
All cash outflows and inflows based on assumptions
Example for retail demand funding
• Stable … ≥ 7.5% runoff
• covered by deposit insurance
• denominated in local currency
• transactional account (e.g. salary deposited) or other established
relationship
• Less stable … ≥ 15% runoff - all other
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NSFR – definition
Available amount of stable funding (i.e. sources)
> 100%
Required amount of stable funding (i.e.
uses)
Uses with maturity > 1 year should be funded by sources
that are expected to be available for a period > 1 year
Supervisory scenario = mild idiosyncratic (longer-term
focus)
• decline in profitability and/or solvency
• downgrade in credit rating
• reputational event
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NSFR – available stable funding (sources)
Components of ASF
ASF Factor
Tier 1 & 2 capital
100%
Other pref shares with effective maturity ≥ 1 year
100%
Other liabilities (e.g. secured and unsecured, including term
deposits) with effective maturity ≥ 1 year
100%
‘Stable’1 retail and SME non-maturity deposits and term deposits
with residual maturity ≤ 1 year
85%
‘Less stable’1 retail and SME non-maturity deposits and terms
deposits with residual maturity ≤ 1 year
70%
Unsecured wholesale funding, non-maturity and term deposits from
non-financial corporates with residual maturity ≤ 1 year
50%
All other liabilities and equity not included above
0%
1. As defined for the LCR
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NSFR – required stable funding (uses)
Summary composition of asset categories
i) Cash
RSF Factor
0%
ii) Securities with effective residual maturity < 1 year
iii) Non-renewable loans to financials with residual maturity < 1 year
Unencumbered marketable debt issued or guaranteed by
sovereigns, central banks, BIS, IMF, MDBs eligible for 0% risk
weight and with residual maturity > 1 year
5%
Unencumbered corporate bonds (or covered bonds) rated ≥ AA with
residual maturity ≥ 1 year AND traded in deep, active market
20%
i) Gold
50%
ii) Unencumbered listed equities and unencumbered corporate
bonds (or covered bonds) rated ≥ A- with residual maturity ≥ 1 year
AND traded in deep, active market
iii) Loans to non-financial corporates with residual maturity < 1 year
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NSFR – required stable funding (uses) – cont’d
Summary composition of asset categories
RSF Factor
Loans to retail clients with residual maturity < 1 year
85%
All other assets
100%
Off-balance sheet categories
RSF Factor
Undrawn amount of conditionally revocable and irrevocable credit
and liquidity facilities provided to retail clients, corporates, financials,
sovereigns, etc
10%
Other contingent funding obligations, including:
- unconditionally revocable uncommitted credit and liquidity facilities
national
discretion
- guarantees
- letters of credit
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Monitoring tools – firm-based
Contractual maturity mismatch
• Provides insight into the extent to which the bank relies on ‘maturity
transformation’ contractually
• Standardization enables comparison, identification of outliers
• Contractual cash and security inflows and outflows in specified time buckets:
overnight; 7- and 14-day; 1-, 2-, 3- and 6-month; 1-, 3- and 5-year; beyond 5
years
• Asset flows per latest / liability flows per earliest possible date
Concentration of funding: identify wholesale funding sources whose
significance could result in liquidity problems if funding is withdrawn
Unencumbered assets: collateral for funding in secondary markets and for
central bank facilities
• monitor amount, type and location
• also consider haircut and currency
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Monitoring tools – market-related
Market-wide information
• absolute level of, and trend in, major markets (e.g. equity
indices, debt markets, FX markets)
Financial sector market information
• equity/debt markets for financial sector broadly
Bank-specific information
• equity prices, CDS spreads, price/yield of debentures in the
secondary market – for individual banks
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Application issues
Scope of application
• at least on a consolidated basis
• potentially also on sub-consolidated (legal entity) basis (ring-fencing?)
Currencies
• at least aggregated across transferable and convertible currencies
• potentially also by ‘significant’ currency
Frequency of calculation and reporting
• at least monthly, as often as daily in stressed conditions
• maximum two-week lag
• standards to be met ‘continuously’
Public disclosure
• value and level of the metrics, drivers behind the metrics
• size and composition of the components
• frequency? not specified in consultative document …
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