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''Securities - borrowings - pricing - ESG.''
''Bank regulation''.


A green curve describes the prices of green securities trading in the secondary market, differentiated by their maturities.
(LCR).


Green curve is an abbreviation for green ''yield curve''.
The LCR is a requirement under Basel III for a bank to hold high-quality liquid assets (HQLAs) sufficient to cover 100% of its net cash requirements over 30 days.  


It applies throughout the European Union.


The difference in yield between the green yield curve and the comparable conventional conventional yield curve is known as the "green premium" or ''greenium''.
The LCR has been implemented in stages from 2015, to reach the 100% requirement by January 2019.  




:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''UK to build out green curve'''''</span>
It reduces the value to a bank of cash deposits of less than 30 days tenor because they are only worth the income on the HQLAs if a bank forecasts no short term cash receipts to cover repayment.  
 
:"It was announced at Budget 2021 that the government will issue its first sovereign green bond - or green gilt - this summer, with a further issuance to follow later in 2021 as the UK looks to build out a 'green curve'."
:''Green gilt issuance, UK Debt Management Office''
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Germany to create a green curve'''''</span>
 
:"Germany's green debt plan differs from peers such as France and the Netherlands in that each green bond sold will be matched with a conventional twin...
 
:The structure will show investors the exact cost of going green. Until now, gauging the green premium meant examining an issuer’s regular yield curve to gauge where a hypothetical conventional bond identical to the green bond in question might trade.
 
:'For the first time, we will be able to exactly see what the (green) premium looks like without having to do any maths, except for a simple "minus" calculation, one yield minus the other,' said Christoph Rieger, head of rates and credit research at Commerzbank in Frankfurt...
 
:... accurately gauging relative issuance costs should convince more borrowers of the financial benefits of going green, said Piet Christiansen, chief strategist at Danske Bank in Copenhagen.
 
:So Germany’s structuring of this issue could well be key in drawing more borrowers to the green market.
 
:'When Germany will (create) a green curve, then this is what we will price the green projects off of. So it is really that there will be a benchmark of where green pricing will be, going forward,' Danske’s Christiansen said."
 
:''Reuters - Yoruk Bahceli - 2 September 2020''
 
 
 
The size of the green premium (greenium) - and even the rationale for its existence - are subject to some debate.
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''26 out of 33 green bonds priced on or inside their yield curves'''''</span>
 
:"The new issue premium is the [difference in yield] for a new bond compared to where seasoned bonds from the same issuer are trading in the secondary market at the time of issuance...
 
:There is no reason why a bond being green should impact its price, since green bonds rank pari-passu (on equal footing) with bonds of the same payment rank and issuer.
 
:[However, there] is no credit enhancement to explain pricing differences and issuers of green bonds often incur costs such as Second Party Opinions and Certification, although these are typically negligible.  
 
:Green bonds and vanilla equivalents are subject to the same market dynamics..."
 
:''Green bond pricing in the primary market - July to December 2020 - Climate Bonds Initiative''


The purpose of this requirement is to ensure that banks can manage stressed market conditions, under which the bank is assumed to suffer substantial outflows of the cash previously deposited with it.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Bond]]
* [[Basel III]]
* [[Green bond]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Green gilt]]
* [[Net Stable Funding Ratio]]
* [[Greenium]]
* [[Cash investing in a new world]]
* [[Maturity]]
* [[HQLA]]
* [[Premium]]
* [[Level 1 liquid assets]]
* [[Secondary market]]
* [[Level 2 liquid assets]]
* [[Yield curve]]
* [[Leverage Ratio]]
* [[Liquidity buffer]]
* [[Liquidity risk]]
* [[LR]]
* [[OLAR]]
* [[Pillar 1]]
* [[Required Stable Funding]]
* [[Survival period]]


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[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Ethics]]
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]

Revision as of 11:55, 17 November 2016

Bank regulation.

(LCR).

The LCR is a requirement under Basel III for a bank to hold high-quality liquid assets (HQLAs) sufficient to cover 100% of its net cash requirements over 30 days.

It applies throughout the European Union.

The LCR has been implemented in stages from 2015, to reach the 100% requirement by January 2019.


It reduces the value to a bank of cash deposits of less than 30 days tenor because they are only worth the income on the HQLAs if a bank forecasts no short term cash receipts to cover repayment.

The purpose of this requirement is to ensure that banks can manage stressed market conditions, under which the bank is assumed to suffer substantial outflows of the cash previously deposited with it.


See also