CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

CBIRC Issues Final Rules on Resolution Planning for FIs

By Editors | 12/06/2021

Deposit-taking institutions, leasing companies, asset managers and insurers with assets exceeding a specified threshold are required to formulate recovery and resolution plans.

Capital / Liquidity

HKMA Defers Implementation of Basel III Capital Standards

By Editors | 11/06/2021

Banks have an additional six months to implement the revised frameworks on credit risk, operational risk, output floor and leverage ratio. The market risk and CVA risk frameworks are also deferred.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS Consults on Prudential Treatment of Cryptoasset Exposures

By Manesh Samtani | 11/06/2021

Bitcoin and other “Group 2 cryptoassets” will be subject to a 1250% risk weight to avoid exposing bank depositors and creditors to a loss.

Capital / Liquidity

IMF Reaffirms Hong Kong Stability, Identifies Pockets of Risk

By Manesh Samtani | 10/06/2021

The IMF recommends enhancing monitoring of lending to Mainland China, increasing oversight over banking groups, and regulating mortgage lending by non-banks.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS to Consult on Capital Rules for Banks’ Crypto Exposures

By Manesh Samtani | 09/06/2021

The proposed consultation builds on an earlier paper which outlined an approach that would subject direct crypto exposures to full deductions from CET1 capital.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Proposes Phased Approach to New Credit Risk Reporting Standard

By Manesh Samtani | 09/06/2021

An interim and simplified reporting standard will apply while ADIs develop their capabilities for delivering the full suite of credit risk data collected by ARS 220.0.

Capital / Liquidity

BSP Raises Bank Limits on Open FX Positions

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 07/06/2021

The BSP has raised the limit as part of a larger set of amendments to the framework for the management of banks’ open FX positions.

Capital / Liquidity

PBOC Accepts Applications to Establish Financial Holding Companies

By Manesh Samtani | 07/06/2021

China CITIC Limited and China Everbright Group have become the first to apply for approval to establish financial holding companies.

Capital / Liquidity

CBIRC Green-lights Ant Group Consumer Finance Unit

By Manesh Samtani | 04/06/2021

Ant will hold a 50% stake in the new unit, which forms a key part of the restructuring that was ordered to resolve regulatory concerns.