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  2. Reserve requirement - Wikipedia

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    From 1981 to 2009, each commercial bank set out its own monthly voluntary reserve target in a contract with the Bank of England. Both shortfalls and excesses of reserves relative to the commercial bank's own target over an averaging period of one day [ 10 ] would result in a charge, incentivising the commercial bank to stay near its target, a ...

  3. United Kingdom banking law - Wikipedia

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    The Bank of England acts as the UK's central bank, influencing interest rates paid by private banks, to achieve targets in inflation, growth and employment. The Bank of England was originally established as a corporation with private shareholders under the Bank of England Act 1694, [1] to raise money for war with Louis XIV, King of France.

  4. Bank reserves - Wikipedia

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    Bank reserves are a commercial bank's cash holdings physically held by the bank, [1] and deposits held in the bank's account with the central bank.Under the fractional-reserve banking system used in most countries, central banks may set minimum reserve requirements that mandate commercial banks under their purview to hold cash or deposits at the central bank equivalent to at least a prescribed ...

  5. Fractional-reserve banking - Wikipedia

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    Money creation in the modern economy Archived 25 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine Bank of England; Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board of the U.S. Bank for International Settlements – The Role of Central Bank Money in Payment Systems

  6. Taylor rule - Wikipedia

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    During the Great Moderation from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s, major central banks including the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England generally followed policy approaches aligned with the Taylor rule, which provided a systematic framework for setting interest rates. This period was marked by low and stable inflation in most advanced ...

  7. Banking regulation and supervision - Wikipedia

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    The reserve requirement sets the minimum reserves each bank must hold to demand deposits and banknotes. This type of regulation has lost the role it once had, as the emphasis has moved toward capital adequacy, and in many countries there is no minimum reserve ratio. The purpose of minimum reserve ratios is liquidity rather than safety.

  8. Bank of England - Wikipedia

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    BOEN had two shareholders: the Bank of England, and the Secretary of the Bank of England. [92] The reserve requirement for banks to hold a minimum fixed proportion of their deposits as reserves at the Bank of England was abolished in 1981: see Reserve requirement § United Kingdom for more details.

  9. Basel III - Wikipedia

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    Basel III requires banks to have a minimum CET1 ratio (Common Tier 1 capital divided by risk-weighted assets (RWAs)) at all times of: . 4.5%; Plus: A mandatory "capital conservation buffer" or "stress capital buffer requirement", equivalent to at least 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, but could be higher based on results from stress tests, as determined by national regulators.