This document outlines issues related to implementing a liquidity risk management (LRM) framework. It discusses stochastic liquidity modeling and critical topics like intragroup liquidity, intra-day liquidity, collateral management, contingency funding plans, and transfer pricing. The document proposes establishing LRM committees, designing a two-year implementation plan, and conducting training to help with adopting the framework over time.
1. Implementation Issues
of the LRM Framework
Mr. Fai Y. LAM
MSc in Financial Engineering
CFA, CAIA, FRM,
PRM, MCSE, MCNE
PRMIA Award of Merit 2005
Tuesday 16
October 2012
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
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Outline
Stochastic liquidity modelling
Critical implementation topics
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Issues of stressed cash flow approach
Very limited stressed experience
Subjective behavioural assumptions
Failed to
capture off-balance sheet items
quantify diversification
differentiate banks at different levels of LRM
skill
No cash flow uncertainty incorporated
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Assumptions
Banks will forecast their cash flows on regular basis
Banks can record their actual cash flows
Historical records are available for statistical
analysis
Actual cashflow = projected cashflow + variation
Percentage variation
can be calculated
forms a normal distribution
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% of variation in cashflow forecast
%1001% ×
−=
cashflowProjected
cashflowActual
variation
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Assumptions
Banks with good LRM skills
Experienced treasurers
Stable businesses
Lower risk investments
More diversified funding sources
More diversified lending counterparties
More sophisticated IT systems
Will result
Lower average percentage variation
Lower standard deviation of percentage variation
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% of variation in cashflow forecast
Average
How conservative is the bank in making cashflow
forecast?
Standard deviation
How consistent is the is the bank in making
cashflow forecast?
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Cash flow modelling
Given a bank has made use of its best effort in
forecasting the cash flows
What is the worst situation of actual cash
flows?
Worst case at 99.9% confidence level
Situation that happens once every thousand times
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Cash flow modelling
Single month cash outflows
Single month cash outflows and single month
cash inflows
Multiple month cash outflows and multiple
month cash inflows
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Potential application
By tenor
By funding source
By counterparty
By country
By business
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Quantitative risk measures
Increasing uncertainty
Higher standard deviation
Market wide stress
Lower correlation between cash inflows and cash
outflows
Increasing diversification
Lower correlation
among cash inflows
among cash outflows
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Outline
Stochastic liquidity modelling
Critical implementation topics
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Intragroup liquidity
Local liquidity stress
Cashflow projection from group members with
high certainty and low correlation
Global liquidity crisis
Cashflow projection from group members with
low certainty and high correlation
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Intra-day liquidity
Precautionary measure
High certainty on intra-day cashflow projection
Maintain sufficient liquidity cushion for the worst
case at 99.99% confidence level (1 failure in 40
years)
Intra-day monitoring
Morning and afternoon on usual business days
Step up to by hour during crisis
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Collateral management
To maintain sufficient and diversified high
liquidity unencumbered assets
Major issue: how much would be sufficient?
Measured by haircut and liquidation horizon
Tier 1 plan: Basel III collateral haircut table
Tier 2 plan: LCR haircut table
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Collateral haircut table, Basel III
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Contingency funding plan
It is only a paper plan
Support from interbank
Support from parent company
Support from central bank
Fire sale of assets
Public relationship with
Media
Regulator
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Contingency funding plan
Contingency funding measures / sources
Central bank lending facilities
Early warning signals / triggering events
Roles and responsibilities
Intraday liquidity considerations
Managing customer / business relationships
Retail / foreign banking operations
Communication and public disclosure
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Near term project plan
Establish
LRM committee
LRM sub-committee under ALCO
Design a 2-year plan
Up to implementation of LCR
Training and awareness
Discuss with professional bodies, service providers and IT
vendors
Start with simple what you have on hand
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Transfer pricing
Asset investments are funded by liabilities,
which consume liquidity
Liabilities and liquidity => funding cost
Liquidity costs to be calculated and charged
to businesses
To prevent the specific use of liquidity at the
expenses of the entire
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Transfer pricing
Still an active research topic
Which discount rates to use
Risk-free curve
Treasury rates
Interbank-swap rates
Overnight index swap rates
Risky curve