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Intraday Liquidity. The Nostros and Intraday Limits.

With new rules coming into effect on Jan 1 2015, this is the twelfth in a series of posts on how banks and FI’s might adapt. The Nostros that find that their business is being allocated high liquidity costs have one immediate weapon at their disposal. If they are being allocated costs based on intraday […]

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Intraday Liquidity. Just in Time Payments.

With new rules coming into effect on Jan 1 2015, this is the eleventh in a series of posts on how banks and FI’s might adapt. There is one further twist that the response to these regulatory changes might take. If an FI were indeed able to successfully integrate rap-time intra-day data back into its […]

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Intraday Liquidity. The Internal SWIFT Set-Up

With new rules coming into effect on Jan 1 2015, this is the eigth in a series of posts on how banks and FI’s might adapt.   In most FIs, the product processing systems each communicate directly with SWIFT. Figure A illustrates the typical set-up. Over time, different entities have acquired their own gateways. A […]

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