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The NSFR requires banks to maintain stable levels of funding relative to their assets and off-balance sheet liabilities. It is a structural ratio designed to improve both bank and systemic resilience. It is a check on rapid bank balance sheet growth and it discourages banks from holding long term illiquid assets funded through wholesale sources. It is one of two minimum standards (the other being the Liquidity Coverage Ratio which focusses on holding short term high quality assets to meet short term liquidity shocks). To back this up there are a host of liquidity monitoring tools they impose on banks via regulatory reporting.

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Basel III is about tightening up the capital and liquidity requirements for financial institutions. Whilst regulators and politicians want to avoid further bails outs there is a danger that the new rules could add further disruption to the credit system. It therefore follows that the new legislation will take at least a decade to be applied and in the process it will be subject to alteration. To be clear bank regulation is very much in the "melting pot". For many firms Basel III will increase the costs of doing business. Banks that find ways to change what they do or the way they do it will use their capital more effectively (aka leverage). This quick guide considers tiers 1, 2 and 3, the credit value adjustment, the liquidity coverage ratio, the net stable funding ratio and the possible effect on firms.