Core funding ratio - L2

The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness

Coverage characteristics

Data on the value of funding are published as end of month figures in millions of New Zealand dollars. Ratios are published as percentages.

Periodicity

Monthly

Timeliness

Data is released approximately five weeks after the reference month.

Start-date of aggregate statistics

Tables L1 and L2 are compiled from data required to be reported by registered banks from April 2010, and are published from that date.

Table L3 is compiled from data required to be reported by registered banks from March 2011, and is published from that date.

List of institutions included in published liquidity statistics

All locally incorporated banks are required to provide reports on liquidity to the Reserve Bank. 

Access by the public

Statistics release calendar

The Statistics Release Calendar provides a long-term plan of scheduled releases. It is updated and released on the first working day of the month.

Integrity

Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including confidentiality of individual responses

The information is disseminated by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as a service to the public.

The RBNZ collects, monitors and analyses the data in undertaking its prudential supervisory functions. These operations involve liaising with and monitoring financial institutions, in order to ensure effective implementation of policy and the soundness of the financial system.

Individual bank responses are strictly confidential.

Provision of information about revisions and advance notice of major changes in methodology

Provisional data are italicised. Data are deemed provisional when a series is under review. New data, or revised data, are in bold font. This applies to the summary table only and not excel files. Revisions are generally published when the table is next due to be updated and released. Should revisions need to be made more promptly, a note is posted on the website under "Revisions to Tables".

Any major changes in methodology will be posted here on this website.

Quality

Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics

Definitions of series are available in the Series description.

The Reserve Bank's Liquidity Policy specifies the minimum prudential standards for registered banks, addressing the degree of liquidity risk that they take on, and their approach to managing that risk.

Dissemination of statistics that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness

Summary information on bank funding is published in the Standard Statistical Return monthly (See S tables).

Registered banks are required to publish Disclosure Statements quarterly. Summary information from these statements is reproduced by the Reserve Bank and available on the website.

Total loans and advances

Total loans and advances (as per BS13) is the figure for loans & advances (net) as reported in the monthly Bank Balance Sheet Survey for the month that is two months prior to the BS13 reporting month.

Core funding ($m)

The core funding dollar amount as at month end, for the purposes of calculating the one-year core funding ratio is defined as:

One year core funding dollar amount =

• all funding with residual maturity longer than one year, including subordinated debt and related party funding
• plus 50 per cent of any tradable debt securities issued by the bank with original maturity of two years or more and with residual maturity at the reporting date of more than six months and not more than one year
• plus non-market funding that is withdrawable at sight or with residual maturity less than or equal to one year, applying the percentages in Table 2 of the Liquidity Policy to such funding falling within each size band
• plus Tier 1 capital

Core funding (%)

The core funding ratio (CFR) is defined as:

Core funding ratio =

• 100 x (One year core funding dollar amount / Total loans and advances as per BS13)

The Reserve Bank initially set the minimum CFR at 65 percent from April 2010, and increased the minimum to 70 percent from 1 July 2011. From 1 January 2013 the CFR increased to 75 percent.

The May 2012 Financial Stability Report (FSR) presented an estimate for the CFR, prior to the introduction of the liquidity policy, from March 1988 onwards using other data sources. See the May 2012 FSR, figure E1.