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Chapter 11
Liquid assets
A liquid asset is one that can be easily and
Required reserves
Legal reserves = vault cash and deposits at the
RR = rdd x DD + rtd x TD
Sweep accounts
Under the Federal Reserves Regulation D, checkable
week period.
Reserves must be held to a fraction of its
base liabilities.
There are three elements of required
reserves:
1.
2.
3.
procedure:
banks must maintain reserves on a daily average basisfor a 14-day period (reserve maintenance period)
beginning on the third Thursday following the
computation period 14 .
The amount of required reserves is determined by the
magnitude of daily average reservable liabilities over a
base computation period that that begins about four and
one-half weeks before the maintenance period begins
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Lagged
Computation
Period
Vault Cash
Computation
Period
Managing float
and profitability.
this relationship.
responsibility.
Liquidity risk, for a poorly managed bank,
closely follows credit and interest rate risk.
Pledging requirements
Not all of a banks securities can be easily
sold.
Like their credit customers, banks are
required to pledge collateral against certain
types of borrowings.
U.S. Treasuries or municipals normally
constitute the least-cost collateral and, if
pledged against debt, cannot be sold until
the bank removes the claim or substitutes
other collateral.
Loans
Many banks and bank analysts monitor
Total Deposits
Core Deposits
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Time
Liquidity planning
Banks actively engage in liquidity planning
at two levels.
The first relates to managing the required
reserve position.
The second stage involves forecasting net
funds needs derived, seasonal or cyclical
phenomena and overall bank growth.
Liquidity planning:
Monthly intervals
The second stage of liquidity planning
base trend ,
short-term seasonal , and
cyclical values
.
Liquidity needs =
Forecasted loans + required reserves
- forecasted deposits
receipts
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