RBA imposes liquidity fee and rises repo margins

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In order to implement international liquidity rules, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to charge 15 bp for financial companies who would want access standby funds. RBA also claimed that it is going to broaden margin applied to repurchase agreements for long term assets released by organizations other than Australian government.

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