Required Reserves

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
RR
Pronunciation
/rikˈwaɪərd rɪˈzərvz/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Any excess of actual reserves above required reserves.
  2. The money it can lend and invest, at any moment, is its excess of cash and bank balances over required reserves and minimum cash requirements.
  3. The Chinese central bank has trimmed banks ' required reserves and also used its open-market operations to inject more cash in the economy, reducing banks ' funding costs.
  4. As one of the three major tools for monetary policy, required reserves policy is violent, time-delay and passive, etc in characteristics.
  5. This would confirm that the central bank has only allowed a faint relaxation of monetary policy despite cutting banks ' required reserves last month.

Other meanings of RR