Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

The U.S. Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) rule is designed to promote resiliency of the banking sector by requiring that certain large U.S. banking organizations (Covered Companies) maintain a liquidity ...

In 2014, the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) was a much-needed response to the liquidity crises that exacerbated the global financial meltdown. The regulation requires banks to hold enough high-quality ...

It is 10 years since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) published its rules on the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) designed to ensure that banks hold sufficient reserves of cash or ...

Liquidity ratios are key financial ratios used by internal and external analysts to gauge a company's liquidity, which represents its capacity to pay its existing short-term liabilities if it needs to ...

The liquidity coverage ratio was created after the 2008 financial crisis to ensure banks had sufficient liquidity to withstand temporary disruptions to funding markets. The new rule led broker-dealers ...

The new liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) norms that took effect in April have helped banks improve their ratio as well as freed up liquidity to support credit growth at a time when deposit growth is ...

On March 3, in remarks at a roundtable on bank liquidity, Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Jonathan McKernan called for significant reforms to the liquidity coverage ratio and the broader ...