HKMA says to provide more market liquidity if necessary
Business | 23 Apr 2020 6:28 pmHong Kong Monetary Authority deputy chief executive Howard Lee Tat-chi said the HKMA attaches great importance to ensuring adequate liquidity in the banking system and will introduce further measures to provide market liquidity if needed.
Lee wrote in a blog on the HKMA website that the HKMA has conducted four transactions so far selling HK$7.71 billion to the market in exchange for US dollars and the Aggregate Balance in the banking system will increase even further to HK$66.8 billion tomorrow.
"Such increase will considerably expand the liquidity backstop for banks and ensure that HKD interbank activities will continue to operate smoothly."
He added that the HKMA will launch a US Dollar Liquidity Facility on May 6 to make available the USD liquidity obtained from the US Federal Reserve to the Hong Kong banking system.
