Turkey requires banks with less than 60% lira deposits to hold more securities

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ISTANBUL, April 7 (Reuters) - Turkey has raised the ratio of securities that banks must maintain if their lira deposits amount to less than 60% of their total deposits, according to an announcement in the country's Official Gazette on Friday. According to the new regulations, banks whose lira deposits are less than 60% of total deposits will have to hold an additional seven percentage points of securities.


Previously the requirement of 7 additional points applied to banks which held less than 50% lira deposits.
(Reporting by Can Sezer and Nevzat Devranoglu; Editing by Daren Butler)

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