Risk Europe : Regulators must address structural liquidity mismatches

Supervisors should develop standards that address structural liquidity mismatches between bank assets and liabilities, according to Jim Embersit, the deputy associate director in the US Federal Reserve Board's division of banking supervision and regulation.

Speaking at the Risk Europe conference in Frankfurt yesterday, Embersit said the management of liquidity risk exposures is high on the agenda of policymakers following the financial crisis, and added there is a significant push to create more consistency with respect to liquidity risk supervision and regulation.

However, the primary focus of many regulators so far has been to develop guidelines to ensure banks have a sufficient liquidity buffer to survive a specified stress period over a defined

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