FX Focus - The regulation blues

Intraday liquidity monitoring proves to be a heavy lift for banks

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Amit Agarwal, Citi

In July 2012, when the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released its first consultation document on intraday liquidity standards, the groan emitted by treasury managers at the major banks was audible. Already grappling with two onerous and completely new liquidity ratios from the Basel III accords, this extra bit of regulation felt like a step too far.

Senior bankers condemned it as ‘scattergun', ‘not feasible' and ‘ineffective', and two years on, after further development of the concept

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