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ECB in no hurry with new structural operations – Välimäki

Portfolio will first need to be reduced ‘considerably’, says bank's alternate board member

Tuomas Välimäki
Tuomas Välimäki
Suomen Pankki (https://shorturl.at/fYwHe)

The European Central Bank will wait until its monetary policy portfolios are reduced “considerably” before introducing its new structural operations, a member of the Bank of Finland’s board has said.

In a speech at Danske Bank’s markets conference in Copenhagen on November 26, Tuomas Välimäki said the ECB was waiting until “floor-required excess liquidity” (Frel) had been reached among eurozone lenders. Frel, he said, would correspond to the amount of central bank reserves needed to keep short

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