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Zawya
a day ago
- Business
- Zawya
SNB vice chairman says banks' capital and liquidity buffers remain key
ZURICH: Banks' capital and liquidity buffers remain key in the context of increased financial market volatility and persisting vulnerabilities in Switzerland's mortgage and residential real estate markets, Swiss National Bank Vice Chairman Antoine Martin said on Thursday. The interest rate environment in Switzerland has started to weigh on banks' profitability, Martin added in a speech after the SNB's latest interest rate decision. (Reporting by Ariane Luthi, Editing by Miranda Murray)
Bloomberg
29-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Swiss Central Bank Eases Access to Liquidity Help for Banks
By Updated on Save The Swiss National Bank is reforming how it provides liquidity to banks under stress, responding to criticism of its existing framework that followed the Credit Suisse crisis. Switzerland's central bank will enable lenders to draw a pre-set amount of money from the new Extended Liquidity Facility without having to confirm that they have already exhausted market funding or that they are solvent, Vice President Antoine Martin said in a speech on Tuesday.
