And there are also equity capital requirements along with rules as to what counts in tiers, Basel I & II.

but should the Central Bank, for whatever reason,

not supply the reserves that could make a given bank insolvent overnight. Wouldn't they normally 'resolve' that bank rather than not supplying reserves?

But sane central banks never deliberately create bank runs on their own banking system like that. Partly because it's a game of musical chairs: All liquidity comes, in the final analysis, from the central bank. So if the central bank withdraws enough liquidity from the system that a bank must fold due to liquidity requirements, then (at least) one bank will fold when the music stops... and it may not be the bank the CB wanted to kill.

- Jake

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