Posts Tagged Liquidity Risk
JP Morgan has released the latest 2011 global liquidity survey. See it here http://www.treasurers.org/node/7564
Here is my take on the headline points...
The appetite for yield is returning. I sense we have moved from a focus on just staying in business back to one of return on cash. Since 2008, many companies have just been happy to actually have spare cash to earn a return in the first place, as I am sure are their shareholders. Now that period of grace is over the shareholders
January 13, 2012
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It wasn't that long ago, perhaps a year, when certain banks were really not interested in a company's Liabilities / Credit balances. Let's be clear, from a corporate's point of view we mean Assets and Debit balances but I'll never win that battle.
Things are changing... we've just been offered 150 bps (that's 1.5 percent to most of us) by a Tier 1 bank that is not government owned! Not world beating against some other UK contenders (2% no strings attached) but compares favourably with t
January 12, 2012
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Basel II & III set out the best practice for banks in managing their liquidity. Industry regulators have embarked on the task of defining the measures and controls within their respective jurisdictions that must be adopted by banks. The Basel pillars put in place reserve silos as counter measures to the trading risks of banks, yet it seems that a silo approach to risk management may not succeed and could be unnecessarily costly when credit, settlement and liquidity are a closely linked c
September 14, 2011
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