ECB to Push Banks for Weekly Liquidity Data as Scrutiny Grows
- Lenders may have to break out funding by maturity, client type
- Move reflects need for information rather than acute concerns
The European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt.
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The European Central Bank plans to substantially tighten how it monitors liquidity after several bank runs in the US and Switzerland heightened concerns about a risk that several regulators say hasn’t received sufficient attention.
The ECB proposes to ask lenders to report data on their liquidity reserves on a weekly basis, breaking out funding by maturity and type of client, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified as the deliberations are private.