statutory reserve

基本解释

In retail deposit sweeping, banks reclassify checkable deposits as savings deposits so as to reduce statutory reserve requirements.
由於零售儲蓄膨脹，爲了降低法定儲備金比率，銀行會把支票存款重新歸類爲儲蓄存款。
At the same time, the Government also by the size of the bank, to lower the statutory deposit reserve ratio of one to two percentage points to 14-16%.
同時，政府亦按銀行槼模，調低法定存款準備金比率一至兩個百分點至14-16% 。
The use scheme of statutory welfare reserve and welfare funds.
法定公益金、福利費的使用方案。
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Take its recent attempt to defend the currency by raising the statutory reserve requirements to as high as 40%. (This unwise move has the IMF's fingerprints all over it.) It merely restricts the amount of local currency available for changing into foreign currency, thus artificially containing incipient capital flight.
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Unlike most other central banks, however, the Federal Reserve does not have general statutory authority to oversee these systems.
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