Review of the Flexible Credit Line, The Short Term Liquidity Line and the Precautionary and Liquidity Line, and Proposals for Reform

October 6, 2023

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Review of the Flexible Credit Line, The Short Term Liquidity Line and the Precautionary and Liquidity Line, and Proposals for Reform, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed November 13, 2024

Summary

The Fund’s precautionary toolkit rests on the simple proposition that facilitating crisis prevention is far less costly than crisis resolution. Its value increases with systemic risk. Serial shocks to the global trading and financial systems pose significant and persistent headwinds for well-integrated emerging markets. An adequately funded global financial safety net (GFSN) with a suite of precautionary tools allows qualifying members to respond to balance of payments (BoP) shocks, reducing the incidence of crises and limiting contagion. The Fund is the only layer of the GFSN available to all members; other layers vary in their availability and externalities. In this context, the overarching objective of this review of the Flexible Credit Line (FCL), Short-term Liquidity Line (SLL), and Precautionary and Liquidity Line (PLL) is to ensure that the precautionary facilities toolkit (henceforth “the toolkit”) is fit for purpose for the challenges ahead.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Asset and liability management, Balance of payments, Balance of payments need, Crime, Debt sustainability, External debt, Financial regulation and supervision, Liquidity, Monetary policy, Political economy

Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Balance of payments need, Debt sustainability, FCL arrangement, FCL user, Flexible Credit Line (FCL), Global, Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN), Liquidity, PLL qualification assessment, Precautionary and Liquidity Line (PLL), Qualification assessment, Short-term Liquidity Line (SLL), SLL access, SLL Arrangements, SLL instrument, SLL reform package, Western Hemisphere

Publication Details

Pages:

148
Volume:

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Series:

Policy Paper No. 2023/039
Stock No:

PPEA2023039
ISBN:

9798400254703
ISSN:

2663-3493

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