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RM-3.1.4

The policy for managing liquidity risk should cover specific aspects of liquidity risk management. So far as appropriate to the nature, scale and complexity of the activities carried on, such aspects might include:

(a) The basis for managing liquidity (for example, regional or central);
(b) The degree of concentrations, potentially affecting liquidity risk, that are acceptable to the firm;
(c) A policy for managing the liability side of liquidity risk;
(d) The role of marketable, or otherwise realisable, assets;
(e) Ways of managing both the licensee's aggregate foreign currency liquidity needs and its needs in each individual currency;
(f) Ways of managing market access;
(g) The use of derivatives to minimise liquidity risk;
(h) The management of intra-day liquidity, where this is appropriate, for instance where the licensee is a member of or participates (directly or indirectly) in a system for the intra-day settlement of payments or transactions in investments; and
(i) Policy on overdue and unsettled trades.
Adopted: July 2007