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RBA Glossary definition for solvency
solvency – The capacity of an entity to meet its financial obligations as they fall due. Solvency may be expressed as maintaining positive net-tangible assets.
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Discussion on Liquidity, Financial Crises and the Lender of Last Resort – How Much of a Departure is the Sub-prime Crisis? | Conference –…
14 Jul 2008
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The trick is to ensure that the crisis is truly a liquidity crisis and not a solvency crisis. ... Philip's main point in this paper is that financial innovation has broadened the definition of liquidity and made liquidity crises even harder to
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2008/davis-disc.html
Financial System Liquidity, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy | Conference – 2005
11 Jul 2005
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If the bursting of a property bubble impairs the solvency of the financial sector, then the dynamics ‘on the way down’ can turn into an extremely messy affair, involving a whole ... Regulators are familiar with the potentially destabilising effect of
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2005/shin.html
Liquidity, Financial Crises and the Lender of Last Resort – How Much of a Departure is the Sub-prime Crisis? | Conference – 2008
14 Jul 2008
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Goodhart and Schoenmaker (1995) note that banks generally face illiquidity when solvency is in question. ... They had to mark to market ABS held on balance sheet, so price falls affected their solvency.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2008/davis.html
Bank Funding and Financial Stability | Conference – 2013
19 Aug 2013
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Equivalently, we can define a critical return or ‘solvency point’ for the bank:. ... The bank's balance sheet now becomes:. Solvency at the final date now requires that.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2013/gai-haldane-kapadia-nelson.html
Discussion on Regulating the New Financial Markets | Conference – 1996
9 Jul 1996
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Policies aimed at institutional solvency of banks had served the dual purpose of protecting depositors and promoting systemic stability. ... underwrite the solvency or performance of their subsidiaries with the bank's capital.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1996/sherwin-disc.html
Panel Discussion on Financial Stability: Ten Questions and about Seven Answers | Conference – 2010
9 Feb 2010
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One of the reasons why the Bagehot paradigm failed is that liquidity and solvency were always, in practice, inseparable. ... The reason why institutions become illiquid, other than from mechanical failure, is that people ultimately have doubts about
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2010/caruana-disc.html
Regulating the New Financial Markets | Conference – 1996
9 Jul 1996
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In short, investment firms are much less vulnerable to contagious liquidity and solvency crises than are banks. ... regulate bank-related financial firms to the same standard of solvency risk as banks.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1996/dale.html
Regulatory Policy Issues in Australia | Conference – 1996
9 Jul 1996
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Such supervision does not, of course, have the objective of institutional viability or solvency. ... solvency – and it might or might not make sense to align a particular component of those prudential requirements across different groups.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1996/thompson.html
Discussion On the Economics of Committed Liquidity Facilities | Conference – 2013
19 Aug 2013
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strong negative signal about the bank's solvency. ... Rather, central banks were more comfortable providing liquidity on a contingent basis, where a bank's solvency could be assessed before choosing whether to provide loan funding.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2013/bech-keister-disc.html
Regulatory Challenges of Cross-border Banking: Possible Ways Forward | Conference – 2007
20 Aug 2007
Conferences
It would be easier to reach a common assessment of the systemic importance as well as the solvency of the bank or group in question.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2007/ingves.html