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Deleted: April 2015
Amended: January 2011Hedging
A strategy designed to reduce investment risk using call options, put options, short-selling, or futures contracts. A hedge can help lock in profits. Its purpose is to reduce the volatility of a portfolio by reducing the risk of loss.
High-Quality Liquid Asset ('HQLA')
An asset is considered to be HQLA if it can be easily and immediately converted into cash at little or no loss of value under stress scenarios.
Added: October 2018Home Supervisor
The competent regulatory authority in which the parent of a
conventional bank licensee is incorporated, or in which the head office of a branch is incorporated.Homogeneous loans
Loan facilities bearing similar attributes.
Host Regulator/Supervisor
The competent authority in which a branch of a foreign bank licensee is located or in which a subsidiary or joint venture of a foreign parent bank licensee is incorporated.
Hybrid instruments
A package of two or more different kinds of risk management instruments that are usually interactive.