E Glossary

Table E-1 Glossary

Item Description
AASF Available Amount of Stable Funding
BAU Business as Usual
BCBS Basel Committee for Banking Supervision
BCBS 188 Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring
HQLA High Quality Liquid Asset
ILAS Individual Liquidity Adequacy Standards
LCR Liquidity Coverage Ratio
Level 1 Assets

Level 1 Assets as per Basel III Guidelines are as follows:

Cash

Central bank reserves to the extent that can be drawn down during times of stress.

Marketable securities which satisfy the following conditions:

Issuer type or Guarantor Type is one of the following:

Sovereign

Central Bank

Non-Central Government Public Sector Entity

Multi-lateral Development Bank

The Bank For International Settlements

The International Monetary Fund

The European Commission

They are assigned a 0% risk-weight under the standardized Approach of Basel II

Issuer type is not a bank or other financial services entity

Debt securities issued in the local currency of the legal entity in which the liquidity risk is being undertaken or the bank’s country of domicile where the issuer type is sovereign or central bank and the risk weight assigned to the sovereign is greater than 0%

Debt securities issued in foreign currencies, to the extent that matches currency needs of bank’s operations in that jurisdiction, where the issuer type is domestic sovereign or central bank and the risk weight assigned to the sovereign is greater than 0%

Level 2 Assets

Level 2 Assets as per Basel III Guidelines are as follows:

Marketable securities which satisfy the following conditions:

Issuer type or Guarantor Type is one of the following:

Sovereign

Central Bank

Non-Central Government Public Sector Entity

Multi-lateral Development Banks

They are assigned a 20% risk-weight under the standardized Approach of Basel II

Price has not decreased or haircut has not increased by more than 10% over a 30-day period during a relevant period of significant liquidity stress which is specified by the bank

Corporate Bonds and Covered Bonds which satisfy the following conditions

Issuer type is a non-financial institution

Issuer type is not the bank itself for which the computations are being carried out or any of its affiliated entities (in case of covered bonds)

Credit rating by a recognized external credit assessment institution is equal to or greater than AA- or if it does not have an external rating, the probability of default as per the internal rating corresponds to a rating which is equal to or greater than AA-

Price has not decreased or haircut has not increased by more than 10% over a 30-day period during a relevant period of significant liquidity stress which is specified by the bank

NSFR Net Stable Funding Ratio
OFSAAI Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure
RASF Required Amount of Stable Funding
Revised Time Buckets Revised time bucket is the bucket into which the cash flows are to be moved from the original time bucket.
Unencumbered Assets Unencumbered Assets are assets which can easily sold or mortgaged as these assets are free from debt with no legal defects in its title.