Covered bonds unfit for liquidity buffers, says UK
The UK Treasury has said that covered bonds are not an acceptable asset for liquidity buffers, arguing in a submission on CRD IV that the crisis has shown that they are not “resiliently liquid instruments”. Among other EU authorities to respond to the European Commission, only the Maltese adopt a similar position.
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