On 1 October 2026 the Riksbank announced that the Eurosystem has approved its onboarding to EUREP, the Eurosystem’s repo facility for central banks outside the euro area. The line lets the Riksbank borrow up to EUR 50 billion by pledging eligible euro-denominated collateral, and the ECB has said that drawings under the enhanced facility are…
FR 2052a reporting is the Federal Reserve Board’s granular view of liquidity at the large banking organizations it supervises under the Category I to IV standards. The Complex Institution Liquidity Monitoring Report (OMB control number 7100-0361, renewed by the Board without revision on 4 February 2025) is filed by top-tier U.S. bank holding companies and…
On 29 September 2026 the Bank of Canada and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) issued a joint statement on the Bank’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF), the facility that gives participants in Lynx, Canada’s high-value payment system, secured liquidity both intraday and overnight. Its operative sentence is short: overnight SLF draws “are…
Speaking at the Small Bank Symposium in Bern on 7 September 2026, FINMA’s chief executive set out to answer a complaint the supervisor keeps hearing: that Switzerland’s small institutions are watched too closely while the large banks are left alone. His defence rested on the FINMA small banks regime, the voluntary framework that has run…
On 20 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published Working Paper No 47, a 35-page literature review titled “Literature review on non-maturity deposit stability: established factors and recent developments”. Non-maturity deposit stability is the question of how reliably sight deposits, current accounts and savings balances stay put when a bank comes under stress,…
On 3 September 2026, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) imposed licence conditions on ING Bank Australia Limited (ING Australia), raised the bank’s minimum liquidity requirement and applied a $50 million operational risk capital add-on. The trigger was a multi-year overstatement of the bank’s Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). ING Australia had been reporting an LCR…
On 1 September 2026 Norges Bank published Circular 3/2026, and from 1 October 2026 it sets the reserve quotas that decide how much of each counterparty bank’s overnight deposit at the central bank earns the key policy rate. Deposits up to a bank’s quota are remunerated at the policy rate. Anything above the quota earns…
On 25 August 2026, the Reserve Bank of Australia set out how far along it is on what it calls the road to ample. In a Sydney speech, the RBA’s Head of Domestic Markets, David Jacobs, described the central bank’s transition to an RBA ample reserves framework, a demand-driven regime for supplying the Exchange Settlement…
On 21 August 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg published its Financial Stability Review 2026, the central bank’s annual read on the systemic risks running through the Grand Duchy’s banks, insurers and investment funds. The BCL Financial Stability Review 2026 was closed editorially on 12 June 2026, and the most recent figures in it are…
On 18 May 2026 the Prudential Regulation Authority sent a Dear CEO letter to the chief executives of UK banks and designated investment firms, reaffirming where the line sits between a deposit and everything that only looks like one. The PRA Dear CEO letter on innovations in the use of deposits, e-money and stablecoins, signed…