4.2.1.1 Identification of Assets as Liquid and Readily Marketable

The application identifies liquid and readily marketable assets in the following manner:
  • It is traded in an active secondary market with more than two committed market makers
  • It has a large number of committed non-market maker participants on both the buying and selling sides of transactions
  • It has timely and observable market prices
  • It has high trading volumes

An asset that is not liquid and readily marketable is not considered a high quality liquid asset.