Our Articles

Banking

Intraday Liquidity Management – Part IV: It’s a MAD world

Unintended consequences and the potential for a MAD outcome; Mutually Assured Destruction. Whilst this week’s post is not about the arms race, it is about how banks are arming themselves.  From previous posts, readers will be aware that banks are now having to be proactive around Intra-day Liquidity and  the national regulations coming as a […]

Read More

Intraday Liquidity Management: the billion dollar challenge – Part III

“It’s all ‘bout the Ba(lance)S(he)e(t), ’bout the Ba(lance)S(he)e(t)”. The Balance Sheet. A great friend and old colleague, Nick Nicholls,  helped make this very clear in his appeal to focus on the Balance Sheet in his most recent post. With all the changes in regulations and regulatory focus, I would add an extra dimension to this; […]

Read More

Intraday Liquidity Management: the billion dollar challenge – Part II

Home and away. Internal and external. With the European club football competitions reaching their final stages, a simple analogy may help to explain what a strategy for addressing the liquidity management challenge might look like. In the Champions League and Europa Cup, teams play twice, once at home and once away. Mastering liquidity has some […]

Read More

Intraday Liquidity Management: the billion dollar challenge

This week’s post is about intraday liquidity and its costs. At somewhere between 100 and 150 bps,  $1 billion in liquidity equates to costs of $10 million. At that price, this is a topic worth mastering. This is about right here, right now, so the only Blockchain angle is in possible solutions. The next post […]

Read More