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Chapter 15
Liquidity Risk
Overview • This chapter explores the problems created
by liquidity risk.• Liquidity risk is a normal aspect of the
everyday management of a DI.• Only in limited cases does liquidity risk
threaten the solvency of a DI.• We discuss the causes of liquidity risk,
methods of measuring liquidity risk, and its consequences.
• The chapter also discusses the regulatory mechanisms put in place to control liquidity risk.
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Causes of Liquidity Risk
• Liquidity risk can arise on both sides of the balance sheet: the asset side as well as the liability side.
• Liability side:– Depositors and other claimholders decide to cash in their
financial claims immediately.– Consequence: the DI has to borrow additional funds or sell
assets.
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Causes of Liquidity Risk
• Problems associated with ‘quick’ asset sales:– High costs for turning illiquid assets into cash.– Low sales price; in worst case, fire-sale price.
• Asset side:– Borrowers decide to use the loan commitment facilities
provided by the DI.
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Liquidity Risk at Depository InstitutionsLiability-Side Liquidity Risk:• Large reliance on demand deposits and deposits
raised through other transaction accounts (mostly at-call deposits).
• However, DIs can rely on core deposits.• Need to be able to predict the distribution of net
deposit drains, i.e. the amount by which cash withdrawals exceed cash additions.
• Managed by:– purchased liquidity management,– stored liquidity management.
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Managing Liquidity• Two major ways to manage drains on deposits or
exercise of loan commitments:– Purchased liquidity management, and/or – Stored liquidity management.
• Traditionally, DIs have relied on stored liquidity management.
• Today, most DIs rely on purchased liquidity management.
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Purchased Liquidity Management• Liquidity can be purchased in financial markets, e.g.
borrowed funds from competitor banks and other institutional investors.
• Managing the liability side preserves asset side of balance sheet.
• Borrowed funds are likely to be at higher rates than interest paid on deposits, i.e. funds to be borrowed at market rates.
• Purchased liquidity management allows DIs to increase their overall balance sheet size.
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Stored Liquidity Management
• Liquidate assets. – In absence of reserve requirements, banks tend to hold
excess reserve assets, i.e. over 0.6% of total assets are held in the form of cash.
– Downside of excess cash: opportunity cost of reserves.
• Decreases size of balance sheet.
• Requires holding excess non-interest bearing assets.
• Better to combine purchased and stored liquidity management.
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Measuring a DI’s Liquidity ExposureSources and Uses of Liquidity:• Shown on net liquidity statement• Sources include:
– Sale of liquid assets with minimum price risk, – Borrowing funds in the money market,– Using excess cash reserves.
• Uses include: borrowed or money market funds already utilised.
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Measuring a DI’s Liquidity Exposure
Peer Group Ratio Comparison:• Comparison of certain key ratios and balance
sheet features of the DI with similar DIs. • Usual ratios include:
– Borrowed funds/total assets, – Loan commitments/assets.
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Liquidity Index:• Developed by James Pierce.• Measures the potential loss a DI could suffer from a sudden
disposal of assets, compared to the amount it would receive under normal market conditions.
N
1 i*
i
ii P
PW I
Where: Wi = the per cent of each asset in the DI’s portfolioPi = the immediate sales pricePi* = the fair market price.
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Liquidity Index (cont):• The liquidity index always lies between 0 and 1.
Example: Assume a DI has two assets: 40% in one-month Treasury bonds and the remaining 60% in personal loans. If the DI liquidates the Treasury bonds today, it receives $98 per $100 face value, but it would receive the full face value on maturity (in one month’s time). If the DI liquidates its loans today, it receives $82 per $100 face value, whereas liquidation closer to maturity, i.e. in one month’s time, would lead to $93 per $100 of face value. What is the one-month liquidity index?
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Liquidity Index (cont):
SolutionWe have:
P1 = 0.98 P*1 = 1.00 P2 = 0.82
P*2 = 0.93 W1 = 0.4 W2 = 0.6
0.921 0.529 0.392 93.0
82.0*6.0
1.00
0.98 * .40
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Financing Gap and the Financing Requirement:• Financing gap = average loans – average deposits.• A positive gap means that the DI requires funding.• Thus the financing gap can also be defined as:
– Liquid assets + borrowed funds.• The financing requirement is defined as the financing
gap plus a DI’s liquid assets.• The larger a DI’s financing gap and liquid asset
holdings, the greater the exposure.
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The BIS Approach: Maturity Ladder/Scenario Analysis:– For each maturity, assess all cash inflows versus
outflows.
– Daily and cumulative net funding requirements can be determined in this manner.
– Must also evaluate ‘what if’ scenarios in this framework.
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Web Resources• For further information on the BIS maturity ladder
approach, visit the Bank for International Settlements: www.bis.org
• For information on prudential standards for liquidity measurement and management in Australia, visit APRA:www.apra.gov.au
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Liquidity Planning• The overall aim of successful liquidity planning is to
ensure that there will be sufficient funds to settle outflows as they become due.
• Liquidity falls into a number of different categories:– Immediate liquidity obligations.– Seasonal short-term liquidity needs.– Trend liquidity needs.
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Liquidity Planning• Immediate liquidity obligations:
– Occur in contractual and relationship form.
• Seasonal short-term liquidity needs:– Can be predictable (e.g. Christmas period) or
unpredictable (disproportionate influence of large borrowers and large depositors).
– Seasonal factors may affect deposit flows and loan demand.
• Trend liquidity needs:– Can be predicted over a longer time horizon.– Likely to be associated with a DI’s particular
customer base.
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Trend Liquidity Planning
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Determining Seasonal and Trend Liquidity Needs
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Other Types of Liquidity Needs
• Cyclical liquidity needs:– Liquidity needs that vary with the business cycle.– Difficult to predict.– Out of the control of a single DI.
• Contingent liquidity needs:– Liquidity needs necessary to meet an unforeseen
event.– Basically impossible to predict.– APRA requires DIs to hold sufficient liquid assets
to meet a specific institution or name crisis situation.
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Liquidity Risk, Unexpected Deposit Drains, and Bank Runs
• Reasons for abnormal deposit drains (shocks) :– Concerns about a DI’s solvency relative to other DIs.– Failure of a related DI, leading to heightened depositor
concerns about the solvency of other DIs (contagion).– Sudden changes in investor preferences regarding
holding non-bank financial assets relative to deposits.
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Liquidity Risk, Unexpected Deposit Drains and Bank Runs
• Abnormal deposit drains can cause a bank run:– That is, a sudden and unexpected increase in deposit
withdrawals from a DI.
– A bank run, justified or not, can force a DI into insolvency.
– Bank runs can have contagious effects, i.e. because of the failure of one bank, investors lose faith in DIs overall and start running on their banks.
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Liquidity Risk, Unexpected Deposit Drains and Bank Runs
• Underlying cause of bank runs: demand deposit contract.– Demand deposit contract implies a ‘first come, first served’
principle.– Depositors are paid their full claims until the DI has no funds
left.– Depositors who ‘come late’ will not receive the full amount of
their financial claims or, in the worst case, will receive nothing at all.
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Dealing with Bank Runs• Deposit insurance:
– Guarantee programs offering deposit holders varying degrees of insurance-type protection.
– Deters bank runs and contagion as deposit holders’ place in line no longer affects ability to recover their financial claims.
– Mainly used in the USA.
– Not offered in Australia.
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Dealing with Bank Runs• Discount window:
– Discount window facility to meet DI’s short-term non-permanent liquidity needs.
– Offered by the RBA in the form of rediscount facilities and repurchase agreements.
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Financial System Stability and Liquidity• Responsibility of RBA.• Defined as the absence of financial crises that are
sufficiently severe to threaten the health of the economy.
• Financial crises are costly, e.g. Asian financial crisis in 1997/1998.
• RBA’s responsibility to implement policies that prevent financial instability.
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RBA Role in Maintaining Financial System Stability • RBA is able to use its balance sheet to provide
liquidity to the financial system.– Open market operations, i.e. intervention in the short-
term money markets to affect the cash interest rate.
– RBA affects liquidity by buying or selling Commonwealth Government securities.
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Financial Institution Instability: Australia – the 1990s
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Financial Institution Instability: Australia – the 2000s
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Australian DI Liquidity Regulations • ADIs are required to have sufficient liquidity to
meet obligations as they fall due.• The responsibility for liquidity management
and strategy lies within an ADI’s board of directors and management (APS 210).
• ADI needs to show APRA how it manages liquidity under normal market conditions and in ‘worst case scenarios’.
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Australian DI Liquidity Regulations
• ADIs must provide APRA with quarterly liquidity reports.
• Liquidity reports need to contain scenario analysis for:– Going concern, and– Name crisis.
• Small ADIs are exempt from these regulations and need to hold a minimum of 9% of their liabilities in specified high-quality liquid assets.
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Liquidity Risk and Life Insurance Companies• Life insurers are affected by early cancellation of an
insurance policy.• Life insurance company needs to pay the surrender
value, i.e. the amount received by an insurance policy holder when cashing in a policy early.
• Recent events that have affected general insurers:– Hurricane Katrina, USA, 2005.– Bushfires and floods in Australia.– Newcastle earthquake, 1989.
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Managed Funds• Closed-end funds:
– Sell a fixed number of shares in the fund to outside investors.
• Open-end funds:– Sell an elastic (non-fixed) number of shares in the fund to
outside investors.– Must stand ready to buy back issued shares at current
market prices.
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Managed Funds and Liquidity• Net asset value (NAV) of the fund is market value. • The incentive for runs is not like the situation faced by
banks. • Asset losses will be shared on a pro rata basis, so
there is no advantage to being first in line.
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