Individual lenders have approached the central bank to ease the proposed LCR guidelines that require them to mandatorily invest a sum equal to their 30-day outflows in high quality liquid assets (HQLAs), like government securities, to avoid a collapse like the Silicon Valley Bank. Individual lenders have approached the central bank to ease the proposed LCR guidelines that require them to mandatorily invest a sum equal to their 30-day outflows in high quality liquid assets (HQLAs), like government securities, to avoid a collapse like the Silicon Valley Bank. Economic Times