CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

Thailand Asks State Banks to Help Debtors with NPLs

By Editors | 21/04/2022

Five state banks are asked to grant defer repayments and grant new loans to debtors who are already past due on old debt.

Capital / Liquidity

PBOC, SAFE Step Up Support for Covid-Hit Economy

By Editors | 19/04/2022

Banks are asked to increase lending, delay loan repayments, defer overdue loan reclassification, and support infrastructure projects and property developers.

Capital / Liquidity

Bangladesh Bank Issues Provisioning Policy for ‘Other Assets’

By Editors | 19/04/2022

Banks will have to hold ‘bad debt’ level provisions against funds allocated for certain business expenditures if they sit on the balance sheet as ‘other assets’ for over a year.

Capital / Liquidity

UK Regulators Warn Banks Against ‘Gaming the Rules’

By Editors | 18/04/2022

The warning is reportedly directed at Barclays, the only UK lender that used its pension scheme for capital arbitrage transactions in recent years.

Capital / Liquidity

PBOC Cuts RRR for Banks as Economic Uncertainty Looms

By Editors | 17/04/2022

The cut will free up an estimated CNY 530 billion in banking system liquidity to support the economy and keep financing costs stable.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Introduces New Standing Deposit Facility for Banks

By Editors | 16/04/2022

The facility allows banks to deposit excess liquidity at the RBI, without the central bank having to provide government securities as collateral in exchange.

Capital / Liquidity

Controls at Vietnam Banks to Be Subject to Independent Audit

By Editors | 12/04/2022

Internal control systems at credit institutions and foreign bank branches in Vietnam will be subject to independent auditing, according to a new circular.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Consults on Interim Capital Reporting Standards

By Editors | 08/04/2022

APRA says it has made changes to better meet data needs, simplify reporting requirements, and reduce the need for future data collections and ad hoc requests.

Capital / Liquidity

Emerging Market Banks Less Resilient to Shocks: IMF

By Manesh Samtani | 08/04/2022

The IMF’s Global Bank Stress Test shows that banks can generally absorb large shocks from a capital perspective, though some in emerging markets face greater risks.