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In business, economics or investment, market liquidity is a market's feature whereby an individual or firm can quickly purchase or sell an asset without causing a drastic change in the asset's price. Liquidity involves the trade-off between the price at which an asset can be sold, and how quickly it can be sold.
Liquidity risk becomes particularly important to parties who are about to hold or currently hold an asset, since it affects their ability to trade. [2] Manifestation of liquidity risk is very different from a drop of price to zero. In case of a drop of an asset's price to zero, the market is saying that the asset is worthless.
Liquidity is a prime concern in a banking environment and a shortage of liquidity has often been a trigger for bank failures. Holding assets in a highly liquid form tends to reduce the income from that asset (cash, for example, is the most liquid asset of all but pays no interest) so banks will try to reduce liquid assets as far as possible.
Asset and liability management (often abbreviated ALM) is the term covering tools and techniques used by a bank or other corporate to minimise exposure to market risk and liquidity risk through holding the optimum combination of assets and liabilities. [1]
Liquidity is a concept in economics involving the convertibility of assets and obligations. It can include: Market liquidity, the ease with which an asset can be sold; Accounting liquidity, the ability to meet cash obligations when due; Liquid capital, the amount of money that a firm holds
The securities may be issued by governments, corporations or financial institutions. The fund aims to earn the highest possible current income while maintaining stability and high levels of liquidity.
Liquidity risk: the company is unable to fund itself or is unable to meet its obligations; overlapping the above; Market risk: changes in market prices (typically foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities) cause losses to the business; Credit risk: that a counterparty default causes loss to the business.
Funding liquidity is the availability of credit to finance the purchase of financial assets. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) defines funding liquidity as "the ability of a solvent institution to make agreed-upon payments in a timely fashion". [1] Funding liquidity is essentially a binary concept: a bank can either settle obligations or it ...