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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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Introduction | Conference – 2008

14 Jul 2008 Conferences
Paul Bloxham and Christopher Kent
While traditional models focus on ‘bank runs’, he suggests that the primary concern is now the possibility of ‘financial market runs’ which, via mark-to-market accounting, can threaten the solvency
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2008/intro-2008.html

The Australian Financial System in the 1990s | Conference – 2000

21 Jun 1990 Conferences
Marianne Gizycki and Philip Lowe
In the early 1990s, however, falls in property and equity prices led to a sharp drop in National Mutual's capital reserves, creating doubts about its solvency.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2000/gizycki-lowe.html

European Financial Deregulation: The Pressures for Change and the Costs of Achievement | Conference – 1991

21 Jun 1991 Conferences
Joseph Bisignano
In dealing with creditors, they must maintain the firm's credibility and solvency, which are dependent on the profitability of the enterprise.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1991/bisignano.html

Discussion on Promoting Liquidity: Why and How? | Conference – 2008

14 Jul 2008 Conferences
to rely on the judgments regarding solvency made by the latter.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2008/kearns-lowe-disc.html

Discussion on Banks, Markets and Liquidity | Conference – 2007

20 Aug 2007 Conferences
While solvency is determined by stocks, funding liquidity is determined by flows. ... In practice this approach clearly faces great difficulties, such as differentiating between solvency and liquidity shocks or determining the fair value of assets.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2007/allen-carletti-disc.html

Discussion on Bank Funding and Financial Stability | Conference – 2013

19 Aug 2013 Conferences
To this end, the paper presents a simple model of secured and unsecured bank funding to analyse the impact of increased asset encumbrance on liquidity risk, solvency risk and changes in
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2013/gai-haldane-kapadia-nelson-disc.html

What Caused the Decline in US Business Cycle Volatility? | Conference – 2005

11 Jul 2005 Conferences
Robert J Gordon
Arthur F Burns 1947, p 27). The joy of macroeconomics lies not only in its intrinsic importance to the solvency of governments and the welfare of ordinary citizens, but also in
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2005/gordon.html

Central Bank Liquidity Provision and Core Funding Markets | Conference – 2013

19 Aug 2013 Conferences
Grahame Johnson and Eric Santor
A negative feedback loop developed, in which impairment in the banking sector fed concerns about sovereign solvency. ... The second is an institution-specific shortage of funding liquidity. This is generally associated with idiosyncratic,
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2013/johnson-santor.html

Change and Constancy in the Financial System: Implications for Financial Distress and Policy | Conference – 2007

20 Aug 2007 Conferences
Claudio Borio
They involve the authorities acting as, inter alia, honest brokers, solvency- and liquidity-support providers, and overall coordinators of orderly wind-downs and restructurings.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2007/borio.html

Prudential Supervision | Conference – 1991

21 Jun 1991 Conferences
Graeme Thompson
The solvency of any banking system depends ultimately upon the ability of banks to repay their deposits as they fall due.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1991/thompson.html