China widens commercial property loan uses to ease liquidity
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday said it is widening the uses for commercial property lending by banks in its latest effort to ease a liquidity crunch facing troubled real estate firms.…
China central bank boosts liquidity offering via policy loans, rate unchanged
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s central bank ramped up liquidity injection but kept the interest rate unchanged when rolling over maturing medium-term policy loans on Friday, matching market expectations. Despite the steady policy…
China’s central bank set to boost liquidity injection but keep key rate unchanged
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s central bank is expected to ramp up liquidity injections while leaving the key interest rate unchanged when it rolls over maturing medium-term policy loans on Friday, a Reuters…
Sharp Fed liquidity drain hints at early end for balance sheet runoff
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – A key threshold markets link with an end to the Federal Reserve’s wind-down of its asset holdings could be hit sooner than expected, pointing…
China’s money market shows signs of liquidity tightness towards month-end
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Cash conditions in China’s money market showed signs of tightness on Monday, as market participants grew cautious about month-end demand and a recent liquidity squeeze remained fresh in memory.…
Fitch cuts Swedish SBB rating over tight liquidity, weak market
By Louise Rasmussen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Fitch on Wednesday downgraded Swedish property company SBB’s long-term issuer default rating to CCC+ from B-, and its senior unsecured debt rating to B from B+,…
Global watchdog FSB to tackle funds’ liquidity mismatch – Knot
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The Financial Stability Board, a global risk watchdog, plans to issue new liquidity recommendations for some investments funds after bouts of stress in recent years risked spreading over to…
Porsche SE expects net liquidity at year-end in upper forecast range
BERLIN (Reuters) – Porsche SE said on Monday that net liquidity had improved to a deficit of 5.8 billion euros ($6.20 billion) as of the end of September from minus 6.7 billion…
Fed and banks can do more to reduce liquidity risk -Logan
(Reuters) – Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Lorie Logan on Friday defended the U.S. central bank’s “ample reserves” approach to monetary policy implementation, even as she outlined a number of ways that…
China regulators probe liquidity stress that sent rates to record 50% – sources
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s financial regulators are investigating a month-end liquidity crunch that saw short-term money rates surge to as much as 50%, asking some institutions to explain why they borrowed at extremely…
Some Chinese institutions borrow at 50% rate as liquidity squeezed
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Overnight borrowing costs for some Chinese financial institutions jumped to as high as 50% on Tuesday, as a month-end scramble for cash squeezed liquidity and stressed money markets. In…
Bank of England piles pressure on money market funds to bolster liquidity
By Huw Jones and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England said on Tuesday that money market funds should hold “significantly” higher amounts of liquid assets to cope with market volatility…
India central bank keeps key rate steady; signals tight liquidity
(Reuters) -The Reserve Bank of India’s key lending rate was held steady at a fourth consecutive policy meeting on Friday, as widely expected, but signalled it would keep liquidity tight using bond…
India’s banking system liquidity deficit jumps to over 4-year high
By Dharamraj Dhutia MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s banking system liquidity deficit is at its widest in over four years ago, amid tax outflows and the lack of any major inflows, traders said…
China boosts liquidity with medium-term policy tool
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China’s central bank rolled over maturing medium-term policy loans while keeping the interest rate on them unchanged on Friday, boosting liquidity after a similar move the previous day. Market participants…
China’s central bank set to boost liquidity but keep policy rate steady
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank is expected to boost liquidity while keeping the borrowing cost steady when rolling over its medium-term policy loans on Friday, a Reuters survey showed, after a…
India bond yield curve inversion to persist on tight liquidity, inflation fears – traders
By Dharamraj Dhutia MUMBAI (Reuters) – Tight liquidity conditions and sticky inflation will keep the four-year to 10-year part of the Indian government bond yield curve inverted, traders said on Monday. “The…
Colombia banks call for measures to help liquidity squeeze
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s banks have called on the country’s central bank to tackle liquidity issues amid lower-than-expected government spending and compliance with international regulatory framework Basel III, which strengthens bank risk…
China’s Country Garden flags H1 net loss, vows to address liquidity concerns
(Reuters) – Debt-laden Chinese developer Country Garden expects to report a net loss for the first half of 2023 and said it would take measures to meet its debt obligations and fix…
Aussie regulator removes Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s add-on liquidity requirement
(Reuters) – Australia’s prudential regulator said on Wednesday Bendigo and Adelaide Bank no longer needs to keep an additional amount of cash reserve after the mid-sized lender took steps to rectify issues…
EU banks face liquidity checks next year after 2023 crises
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – European Union banks’ plans for surviving a major crisis without having to tap central bank money will undergo intense scrutiny next year, the bloc’s banking watchdog…
Bank of Korea tweaks lending facility to boost liquidity
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s central bank said on Thursday its monetary policy board decided to reform its standing lending facility, a monetary policy tool for supplying liquidity to banks, strengthening its…
ECB to ask banks to provide weekly liquidity data to monitor their health – Enria
MILAN (Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) will ask banks to provide weekly liquidity data from September so that it can carry out more frequent checks on their ability to ward…
US banks’ reserves steady, assuaging liquidity drainage fears
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – A feared liquidity drainage in the U.S. banking system as the Treasury refills its coffers has not materialised yet, on the contrary reserves increased recently,…
BoE reports second-biggest usage of short-term liquidity repo
LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England allotted 1.2 billion pounds ($1.55 billion)of one-week funds in its short-term repo (STR) operation on Thursday, the second-largest usage of the facility since it launched…
S.Korea state-run banks join liquidity support effort for credit union
By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean state-run banks are providing at least two trillion won ($1.54 billion) of liquidity support to a credit union hit by customer withdrawals, joining commercial banks…
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