(Credit: Stripped Pixel/Adobe Stock) March 29, 2023/IMFBlog By Evrim Bese Goksu, Alicia Hierro, Rita Mesias, and Wilson Phiri A Chinese insurance company buys listed shares of a Swiss bank. A UK pension fund invests in US Treasury bonds. A multinational tech company holds shares of an investment fund in the Cayman Islands. All […]
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Liquidity Pressures Unfolding Rapidly For Some But Not All US Banks
March 17, 2023/Fitch Ratings Fitch continues to monitor the rapidly changing funding and liquidity environment for U.S. banks, and has been evaluating its rated bank portfolio to ascertain deposit flows, particularly over a stressful period beginning just prior to the failure of SVB Financial to the present. Funding and liquidity […]
MPC Likely to Maintain Hawkish Stance
March 17, 2023/FBNQuest In January, the monetary policy committee (MPC) voted to raise the policy rate by 100bps to 17.5% in a bid to curb rising inflationary pressure. Today, we look at the personal statements of MPC members as they appear in the more detailed version of the recently released […]
