Sentences with phrase «balance sheet size»

Today, Axis Bank is a leader in its own right, with an impressive balance sheet size of Rs. 5,25,468 crore as on March 31, 2016.

On the other hand, small banks lack balance sheet size, geographic reach, back office infrastructure and product mix to satisfy the needs of most middle - and lower - middle - market businesses.

Not exact matches

Deutsche Bank notes that, «since the crisis related to banks» capital and liquidity have affected the size and composition of banks» balance sheets.

Fitch's suggestion that balance sheets in the sector «will continue to need to be right - sized» doesn't bode well for investors holding those assets to be «right - sized.»

We believe there is still inherent value in the traditional radio broadcasting sector, but balance sheets will continue to need to be right - sized to support the underlying economics of the industry.

At the appropriate time, the Federal Reserve will gradually sell these securities or let them mature, as needed, to return its balance sheet to a more normal size.

Shirakawa's doubts kept the BOJ firmly focused on interest rates, rather than the size of its balance sheet, even after it had driven its policy rate down close to zero after the global financial crisis.

One line of thinking now is that the central bank may opt to combine the two programs and buy longer - dated bonds more aggressively, then set as its new target the total balance of bond holdings or the size of its balance sheet, the sources said.

It will be easier to convince the public of the central bank's efforts to re inflate the world's third - biggest economy if they can easily measure jumps in the size of the BOJ's balance sheet, supporters of the idea say.

The red line is roughly the size of the Fed balance sheet (all the Treasuries and mortgage backed securities).

The easiest way for the central bank to ramp up the size of its balance sheet would be to buy longer - dated government bonds.

Brian Porter told a University of Toronto conference that he had a «different perspective» from the International Monetary Fund's recent warning and said they should look at the «other side of the balance sheet» which has «kept pace or outgrown the size of the debt.»

«The relative size of the charge vs. expectations and limited disclosure related to potential off - balance sheet liabilities once again raise a question about the credibility of the current guidance and capital structure framework.»

«If the Fed is serious about reducing the size of its balance sheet this year and wishes to communicate those plans well in advance, it is running out of time to do so,» said Michael Pearce, an economist with Capital Economics.

Smartphone maker BlackBerry once accounted for 20 % of Celestica's revenue (which was US$ 6.5 billion last year), but as BlackBerry lost market share in recent years and had to cut costs, it switched to cheaper Asian suppliers, and the two companies formally announced their split last summer; sure enough, Celestica's first - quarter results showed a BlackBerry - sized hole in the balance sheet, with revenues down 19 % from the year before.

We reduced the size of our balance sheet by $ 42 billion from the second quarter of 2011, nearly doubled our Tier 1 common equity ratio since early 2009.»

We have reduced the size of Citi Holdings to 15 % of our balance sheet and further improved our financial strength.»

The transaction leaves the size of the SOMA securities portfolio unchanged but shifts some of the liabilities on the Fed's balance sheet from bank reserves to reverse repos while the trade is outstanding.

The exit would be preceded by a gradual decrease in the size of asset purchases (i.e., a slowing in the amount of extra easing), followed by the end of asset purchases, a gradual withdrawal of excess liquidity from the system, measured increases in the federal funds rate and, eventually, a normalization of the Fed's balance sheet.

We utilize our balance sheet to make direct investments in small - to medium - sized operating companies that demonstrate compelling risk / return characteristics.

In addition to raising rates, it is also reducing the size of its balance sheet by curtailing its bond buying program.

This means we can keep inflation in check regardless the size of our balance sheet.

The balance sheet could thus increase by around $ 1 trillion - equivalent to 50 % of its current size or around 10 % of euro area GDP (as of mid-2014).

Together with the series of targeted longer - term refinancing operations to be conducted until June 2016, these programmes are expected to bring the ECB's balance sheet back towards its early 2012 size.

... As the size of the balance sheet and the quantity of excess reserves in the system decline, the Federal Reserve will be able to return to its traditional means of making monetary policy — namely, by setting a target for the federal funds rate.

You see, back in those (relatively) halcyon days, the Fed got by with what now seems like a modest - sized balance sheet, the liabilities of which consisted mainly of circulating Federal Reserve notes, supplemented by Treasury and GSE deposit balances and by bank reserve balances only slightly greater than the small amounts needed to meet banks» legal reserve requirements.

Unless these special sources of demand are themselves dealt with, shrinking the Fed's balance sheet alone won't suffice to reduce the Fed's size, either in real terms or relative to the credit system as a whole.

Because banks held few excess reserves, it took only modest adjustments to the size of the Fed's balance sheet, achieved by means of open - market purchases or sales of short - term Treasury securities, to make credit more or less scarce, and thereby achieve the Fed's immediate policy objectives.

For example, Bullard believes that the policy rates are currently at the appropriate levels and that the Fed has, ``... delayed a little bit too long in reducing the size of the balance sheet.»

Recently, he estimated a target size for the balance sheet of $ 1 - 1.5 trillion, requiring as much as $ 3 trillion of securities to roll off.

Global central bankers continue to move along the path of gradual tightening, with the U.S. Federal Reserve at the forefront, normalizing interest rates and gradually reducing the size of its balance sheet.

Many Fed officials have noted an elevated demand for currency, compared to what existed before the crisis, but only a few have offered specifics as to the balance sheet's final size.

She wants the Fed to spend more time analyzing its path toward normalization, stating that in the meantime the size of the balance sheet is not likely to change.

But, unlike Evans, Williams also offered a timeframe, remarking that getting to a balance sheet that size would likely take 5 years.

Some officials have said nothing beyond the Framework, while others, particularly those regional bank presidents that do not vote on this year's FOMC, have offered additional comments about the timing, speed, and ultimate target size associated with reducing the balance sheet.

Kaplan echoed those sentiments in February: ``... as we make further progress in removing accommodation, I believe we should be turning our attention to a discussion of how we might begin the process of reducing the size of the Federal Reserve balance sheet.»

A less - inflation - prone economy should allow the Fed to gradually reduce the size of its balance sheet.

Previous analysis illustrated that inflation compensation has returned as reasonable measure of inflation expectations over a 10 year period while both the economy's potential growth and the changing size of the Fed's balance sheet influence the real yield.

As the size of the ECB's balance sheet grows, the quality of its collateral is declining.

In a stark indication of the formidable progress that Bank of America Merrill Lynch has made since its creation through the controversial merger of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch in 2008, this Wall Street titan is leveraging the strength of BofA's balance sheet and the legendary talent of Merrill's standing army of brokers to steal market share from banks of all sizes and domiciles around the world.

With the looming end of Quantitative Easing in the United States, the Fed shows no signs of altering its balance sheet and will maintain its size going forward (over $ 4 trillion).

It's also interesting that in response to a question about the size of the ABS program, Draghi said he wanted to move the ECB balance sheet back to its 2012 dimensions — about $ 3.1 trn — that's quite a bit away from where we are now — just over $ 2trn at the beginning of September.

The final values of the caps would then be maintained until the size of the balance sheet was normalized.

Although changes in the size of the Fed's balance sheet — that is, in its total assets and liabilities — often involve like changes in the quantity of high - powered or base money (currency and bank reserves), and corresponding changes in the total money stock, this isn't always so.

As widely expected, they also announced that in October they would begin to reduce the Fed's balance sheet from the expanded size reached during previous quantitative easing programs.

The size of JPMorgan Chase's balance sheet isn't an issue, it's how they use that balance sheet.

Central banks can most readily do that by adjusting the total size of their balance sheets, which they do by either acquiring or selling assets.

This is much larger than the size of the ECB balance sheet at the previous peak in the euro crisis of 2012:

And no one can say that they don't know that the Fed is about to start reducing the size of its balance sheet.

Central bank balance sheets, pre-crisis, were typically about 5 — 10 per cent of national GDP in size.