Turkey’s central bank relaxes reserve requirements amid the nation’s currency plunge.
For Turkish commercial banks, reserve requirement ratio has been cut by 250 basis points for Lira (for all maturity brackets), and that for non-core foreign-exchange liabilities by 400 basis points for up to 3-year maturities. These are expected to add around $6 billion, 10 billion lira, and $3 billion equivalent of gold liquidity to the financial system, as mentioned by the central bank.
However, capital controls to limit hard currency outflows will not be implemented, according to the nation’s Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak .