01938cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF016853 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475559446 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department. United Kingdom : Financial Sector Assessment Program-Review of the Bank of England's Liquidity Provision Framework-Technical Note. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 1 online resource (25 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper provides a review of the liquidity provision framework and recent developments in the United Kingdom. The Bank of England's (BoE's) Sterling Monetary Framework is the mechanism used in the United Kingdom to direct liquidity provision. The BoE's relatively wide-ranging and accessible liquidity insurance framework raises three key questions and four other issues relevant to financial stability. The quantification of implications of the liquidity framework for the BoE balance sheet is still a work in progress. Safeguards are generally sufficient, although the BoE should ensure that lower level of supervisory scrutiny directed at small- and medium-sized enterprises does not adversely impact its horizon-scanning for firms at risk of requiring liquidity support. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2016/159 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2016/159/002.2016.issue-159-en.xml IMF e-Library