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Article 3 - Assessment of liquidity risk stemming from funding

Article 3

Assessment of liquidity risk stemming from funding

When assessing the availability and quality of the funding sources of an investment firm, competent authorities shall consider all of the following:

(a)

the availability of existing funding sources and the access to pre-arranged emergency funding sources;

(b)

whether such funding sources are secured or unsecured;

(c)

the currency of such funding sources;

(d)

the amount of unencumbered assets that would be available to obtain secured funding;

(e)

the different maturities of such funding sources according to their closest maturity date and the earliest date that they can contractually be called upon;

(f)

the risk of disruption to the investment firm’s daily cash flows caused by an interruption in the investment firm’s credit facilities;

(g)

other committed but undrawn funding sources provided to the investment firm.