CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

Euroclear ICSD Enables Lux ETF Cross-Listings on SGX, HKEX

By Editors | 21/10/2022

With support from Euroclear, DWS migrated Luxembourg ETFs to the ICSD model in order to list in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Big Picture

FSB Proposes Measures to Address Risks in Govt Bond Markets

By Editors | 21/10/2022

The FSB outlines policies to help address factors that caused non-bank investors to sell government bonds during the March 2020 market turmoil.

Capital / Liquidity

HKMA Further Extends Loan Payment Holiday Scheme

By Editors | 20/10/2022

Businesses still face significant operational challenges due to a complex and uncertain external environment and economic outlook, the HKMA said.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Tightens Rules for Unhedged Foreign Currency Exposures

By Editors | 20/10/2022

The RBI tightened rules that require banks to factor borrowers’ unhedged foreign currency exposures into their credit-granting and loss-provisioning decisions.

Capital / Liquidity

Sri Lanka to Assess Capital Adequacy of Big Banks

By Editors | 20/10/2022

The study will assess the capital impacts of losses on foreign currency-denominated financial assets and bad debt.

Capital / Liquidity

Vietnam’s Largest Private Bank Placed Under External Management

By Mark Johnston | 20/10/2022

Four state-owned banks have been asked to help manage Saigon Commercial Bank after it experienced a bank run.

Capital / Liquidity

CBIRC Finalises Rules Allowing Foreign-Funded Finance Companies

By Darien Choong | 19/10/2022

Foreign-funded multinational groups can directly establish domestic finance companies to provide financial services to their member units in China.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Tightens Rules on Disclosing NPA, Provisioning Divergences

By Editors | 18/10/2022

Norms that apply to commercial banks on disclosing NPA and provisioning divergences are being tightened, and extended to UCBs.

Capital / Liquidity

DBS Becomes LCH SwapClear’s First Direct Member in Singapore

By Editors | 18/10/2022

DBS will be able to post Singapore government bonds as collateral, making LCH the first global offshore clearing house to accept the asset class as eligible collateral.