CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Defers Implementation of NSFR, Final Tranche of CCB

By Editors | 02/10/2020

The delays are a result of “continuing stress on account of Covid-19”, giving banks a further six months until 1 April 2021 to meet the higher requirements.

Capital / Liquidity

Fed Extends Restrictions on Bank Dividends, Share Buybacks

By Editors | 01/10/2020

Banks with more than $100bn in total assets are not allowed to initiate new share buyback programmes and dividends are capped based on recent income.

Capital / Liquidity

China Issues G-SIB TLAC Rules for Consultation

By Editors | 30/09/2020

Under the rules, China’s G-SIBs must have loss-absorbing capacity amounting to at least 16 percent of risk-weighted assets starting from 1 January 2025.

Capital / Liquidity

PBOC Enhances Policy Toolbox with CCyB Implementation

By Editors | 30/09/2020

The initial countercyclical capital buffer ratio will be set at zero, meaning capital requirements of banks have not been increased.

Fintech / Regtech

RegTech Asia 2020: Liquidity Risk During a Crisis

By Editors | 29/09/2020

How has Covid-19 impacted liquidity risk management at banks, and how they can better prepare for future market volatility and ongoing credit demands?

Capital / Liquidity

BNM to Allow Banks to Add-back ECL to CET1 Capital

By Manesh Samtani | 29/09/2020

Banks which elect to apply the transitional arrangements are allowed to add back a portion of Stage 1 and Stage 2 provisions for ECL to CET1 capital.

Capital / Liquidity

India Establishes Netting Certainty for Bilateral OTC Derivatives

By Manesh Samtani | 24/09/2020

Parliament passed a bill providing legal basis for bilateral netting of OTC derivatives contracts which are not centrally cleared.

Capital / Liquidity

Too Big to Fail: Markets Abhor a Vacuum

By Jamie Lloyd Evans | 24/09/2020

Some characteristics of the TBTF challenge are specific to Asia, but these may be intractable from ‘winner-takes-all’ capitalism and national interests, writes industry veteran Jamie Lloyd Evans.

Capital / Liquidity

CBIRC Raises Leverage Limits for Microfinance Companies

By Editors | 20/09/2020

Microfinance companies can issue standardised debts such as bonds and ABS products up to 4 times net assets, compared to 0.5 to 3 times net capital previously.