Banks should be operationally ready for liquidity support – BIS

Institution calls on authorities to improve lenders’ preparedness for central bank liquidity

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The Bank for International Settlements
Dan Hinge

Authorities should work to improve lenders’ operational readiness to access central bank liquidity, a report by the Bank for International Settlements has said.

In a paper published on December 16, the BIS’s Financial Stability Institute argues that banks “must have the operational capacity to access central bank lending operations”.

The authors – Rodrigo Coelho, Mathias Drehmann, Diarmuid Murphy and Ruth Walters – note that borrowing from a central bank involves various steps. Lenders need to

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