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Liquid capital or fluid capital is the part of a firm's assets that it holds as money. [1] It includes cash balances, bank deposits, and money market investments.
Basel III. Basel III is the third Basel Accord, a framework that sets international standards for bank capital adequacy, stress testing, and liquidity requirements. Augmenting and superseding parts of the Basel II standards, it was developed in response to the deficiencies in financial regulation revealed by the financial crisis of 2007–08.
Plug Power has consistently turned to equity markets to raise capital to help fund its operations. Over the last decade, Plug Power's average diluted shares outstanding have gone from 170 million ...
Cash and cash equivalents ( CCE) are the most liquid current assets found on a business's balance sheet. Cash equivalents are short-term commitments "with temporarily idle cash and easily convertible into a known cash amount". [ 1] An investment normally counts as a cash equivalent when it has a short maturity period of 90 days or less, and can ...
The Financial Services Forum was established in 2000 by a core group of financial institution chief executive officers (CEO) following the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 1999 (GLBA). The Forum's membership expanded and changed over time and in 2017, the Forum was reconstituted to represent solely the ...
In financial economics, a liquidity crisis is an acute shortage of liquidity. [1] Liquidity may refer to market liquidity (the ease with which an asset can be converted into a liquid medium, e.g. cash), funding liquidity (the ease with which borrowers can obtain external funding), or accounting liquidity (the health of an institution's balance sheet measured in terms of its cash-like assets).
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 ...
Launches of liquid alts funds tripled from 2009 to 2013. [2]Major drivers for the growth in liquid alternative funds include: "The 2008 crisis has fundamentally changed investors’ priorities from a main emphasis on investment returns and alpha generation to an emphasis on diversification and downside protection (or principal preservation), especially in the case of a steep market downdraft" [3]