Re:U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings ac...
by anm89 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:43PM
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no. this is ridiculous. you've demonstrated a total lack of understanding of how a bank manages its balance sheet.
Banks are awash in reserves and in the basel3 regime these reserves fulfill a similar role to cash in fulfilling bank balance sheet construction requirements. so the banks are not constrained from a lending perspective by a lack of cash and therefore have no incentive to raise rates to attract new deposits to create a base to lend off of.
so from the perspective of why rates are low, it's absolutely because banks are sitting on a lot of cash.
Banks are awash in reserves and in the basel3 regime these reserves fulfill a similar role to cash in fulfilling bank balance sheet construction requirements. so the banks are not constrained from a lending perspective by a lack of cash and therefore have no incentive to raise rates to attract new deposits to create a base to lend off of.
so from the perspective of why rates are low, it's absolutely because banks are sitting on a lot of cash.