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Turkey Inspects Local Banks' Lira Liquidity Trades Abroad
Sell/buy-back trades are similar to repo transactions
Liquidity operations may be inflating official inflows data
Turkish officials have been scrutinizing repo-like transactions by local lenders that allow them to access cheaper lira funding abroad and which may be inflating official data on foreign inflows, according to people familiar with the matter.
The central bank asked several banks for more information about the transactions, also known as sell/buy-backs, in recent weeks, the people said, asking not to be named because the requests weren't public. Some local lenders have paused those transactions following the inquiries, the people said.