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Stress Testing in banks: the objective and new challenges

A bank stress test is an exercise conducted under hypothetical scenarios designed to determine whether the bank has enough capital to withstand a negative economic shock. Most risk management models, including stress tests, use historical statistical relationships to assess risk. They assume that risk is driven by a known and constant statistical process, ie they…

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What is Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)?

Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) by RBI is a liquidity adjustment facility extended to Scheduled banks, as a measure to reduce volatility in call money rates in the inter-bank market. The scheme is introduced by RBI, with effect from 09.05.2011. Under the scheme RBI lends to Scheduled Commercial Banks, for an overnight, having Current Account and…

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