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Table 1 Liquidity classification of bank activities and formulas to calculate liquidity creation of a bank

From: Non-performing loans (NPLs), liquidity creation, and moral hazard: Case of Chinese banks

Panel A: liquidity classification of bank activities

Illiquid assets (weight = 1/2)

Semiliquid assets (weight = 0)

Liquid assets (weight = −1/2)

Assets

 Corporate commercial loans

Residential mortgage loans

Cash and due from banks

 Investment in property

Other mortgage loans

Trading securities and at FV through income

 Foreclosed real estate

Other consumer/retail loans

Tradable derivatives

 Fixed assets

Loans and advances to banks

Available for sale securities

 Goodwill

Reverse repos and cash collateral

Held to maturity securities

 Other intangibles

 

At-equity investments in associates

 Other assets

 

Other securities

Liabilities and equity

 Liquid liabilities (weight = 1/2)

Semiliquid liabilities (weight = 0)

Illiquid liabilities (−1/2)

 Customer deposits-current

Customer deposits-term

Senior debt maturing after 1 year

 Customer deposits-Savings

Deposits from banks

Subordinated borrowings

 Tradable derivatives

Repos and cash collateral

Other funding

 Trading liabilities

Other deposits and short term borrowings

Credit impairment reserves

Reserves for pension and others

Fair value portion of debt

Current tax liabilities

Deferred tax liabilities

Other deferred liabilities

Other liabilities

Total equity

Off-balance-sheet activities

 Illiquid activities (weight = 1/2)

Semiliquid activities (weight = 0)

Liquid activities (weight = −1/2)

 Acceptances and documentary credits reported off-balance sheet

Managed securitized assets reported off-balance sheet

 Committed credit lines

Other off-balance-sheet exposure to securitizations

 Other contingent liabilities

 

Guarantees

Panel B: “cat nonfat” and “cat fat” formulas

 Cat nonfat=

+1/2*illiquid assets

0*semiliquid assets

−1/2*liquid assets

+1/2*liquid liabilities

0*semiliquid liabilities

−1/2*illiquid liabilities

−1/2*equity

 Cat fat=

+1/2*illiquid activities

0*semiliquid activities

−1/2*liquid activities

+1/2*illiquid assets

0*semiliquid assets

−1/2*liquid assets

+1/2*liquid liabilities

0*semiliquid liabilities

−1/2*illiquid liabilities

−1/2*equity

  1. Adopted from Lei and Song (2013). Panel A shows that the bank activities are classified as illiquid, semiliquid, and liquid. The weights used to calculate liquidity creation are given in parenthesis. Panel B represents two different formulas of liquidity creation and * represents multiplication