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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 Conferences
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 Conferences
Hyun Song Shin
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 Conferences
E Philip Davis
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

Box A: Small Banks in China

9 Aug 2019 SMP – August 2019
its solvency and reported misappropriation of funds.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2019/aug/box-a-small-banks-in-china.html

Bank Funding and Financial Stability | Conference – 2013

19 Aug 2013 Conferences
Prasanna Gai, Andrew G Haldane, Sujit Kapadia and Benjamin Nelson
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 Conferences
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 Conferences
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

Economic Outlook

10 Aug 2012 SMP – August 2012
Statement on Monetary Policy – August 2012 6. Economic Outlook. Concerns about the sustainability of sovereign debt and the solvency of the banking sector in some European countries, and the long-term
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2012/aug/eco-outlook.html

Regulating the New Financial Markets | Conference – 1996

9 Jul 1996 Conferences
Richard Dale
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

International and Foreign Exchange Markets

10 Aug 2008 SMP – August 2008
In the United States, speculation over the solvency of the two government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, led to heightened concerns about the stability of the financial system in
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2008/aug/intl-fx-mkts.html