- Report outlines a monitoring framework and proposes three composite indicators to capture systemic liquidity risks
- Monitoring framework expands scope of existing frameworks by including non-bank financial intermediaries and markets beyond sovereign bond markets, and measuring risk of contagion and amplification
The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) published a report outlining a monitoring framework for systemic liquidity risks in the financial system. The framework focuses on two major dimensions of liquidity: funding liquidity and market liquidity.
Funding liquidity captures the ability of financial institutions to obtain funding, while market liquidity captures the ability of market participants to trade financial assets quickly and in large amounts without significant price changes. The framework also measures the risk of contagion and amplification, as localized liquidity shortages can result in system-wide stress across entities and markets, increasing in intensity if adverse feedback loops develop.
The three proposed composite indicators capture underlying vulnerabilities in the financial system that could potentially give rise to elevated liquidity stress. There is one indicator for funding liquidity risks, another for market liquidity risks and a third for contagion and amplification risks.
The monitoring framework expands the scope of existing frameworks, which until now have focused on banks and sovereign bond markets. It will now include non-bank financial intermediaries and additional key markets. It also introduces a new measure to address the propensity for contagion and amplification within the financial system.
“Over the last decade, the nature of systemic liquidity has evolved due to structural changes in the financial system,” the ESRB wrote in the report, and in view of those changes, “there is a need to expand surveillance frameworks to cover NBFIs and key markets beyond sovereign bond markets”.