Banking system liquidity:
Banking
system liquidity:
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Liquidity is a measure of
the cash and other assets banks have available to quickly pay bills and meet
short-term business and financial obligations. It is different from the
capital, which is the measure of the resourcebanks have to absorb losses.
·
Liquidity in the banking
system refers to readily available cash that banks need to meet short-term
business and financial needs.
·
On a given day, if the
banking system is a net borrower from the RBI under Liquidity Adjustment
Facility (LAF), the system liquidity can be said to be in deficit and if the
banking system is a net lender to the RBI, the system liquidity can be said to
be in surplus.
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The LAF refers to the
RBI’s operations through which it injects or absorbs liquidity into or from the
banking system.
Reasons
for the Deficit:
1. Improvement
in Demand for the Credit.
2. Incremental
deposit growth not keeping pace with credit demand.
3. Intervention
of the RBI into the forex market to stem the fall in the rupee against the US
dollar.
4. Advance
tax payments by corporates.
5. Government
spending, which boosts liquidity in the market, has been slower than expected
despite robust tax collections.
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