Colombia central bank reduces reserve requirements for lenders
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BOGOTA, Aug 30 (Reuters) -Colombia's central bank has reduced its reserve requirements for lenders, freeing up some 6 trillion pesos ($1.45 billion) in resources as part of efforts to inject liquidity into Latin America's fourth-largest economy, it said in a statement on Friday.
The bank decided to cut reserve requirements aimed at banks offering current and savings accounts to 7% from a previous 8%, as well as cut the requirement for some other lenders to 2.5% from 3.5% previously, the statement said.
The bank said that while the application of the Basel III international regulatory framework for banks had been of "great importance" the current context allowed and called for a loosening of reserve requirements.
"In this new context, the reserve requirement was defined considering the intraday liquidity needs of participants in the high-value payment system, so that the economy's payments flow without interruption," the statement said.
Reducing the reserve requirements would make those resources available to the country's economy, the bank added.
Colombia's economy expanded 2.1% in the second quarter versus the year-earlier period, lower than expected by the market but still showing a moderate recovery.
($1 = 4,132.11 Colombian pesos)
Reporting by Carlos Vargas and Nelson Bocanegra
Writing by Oliver Griffin
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