Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

BNM Consults on Standardised Approach to Credit Risk Capital

By Editors | 25/01/2023

FIs are asked to provide feedback and complete an accompanying Quantitative Impact Study reporting template.

Capital / Liquidity

EU Lawmakers Back Draft Law to Implement Basel III

By Editors | 25/01/2023

The draft law contains an interim treatment for banks to apply a 1250% risk weight to their cryptoasset exposures until 31 December 2024.

Capital / Liquidity

EU Faces Industry Opposition on Proposed Commission Ban

By Mark Johnston | 24/01/2023

Financial industry associations say a ban on commissions paid to financial advisers for selling financial products would harm consumers.

Capital / Liquidity

US OCC Outlines Framework for “Too-Big-to-Manage” Banks

By Editors | 24/01/2023

The OCC is looking to provide more transparency into its escalation framework for dealing with banks that become too big to manage.

Capital / Liquidity

Implementation of 2013 NBFI Reforms Are Incomplete: FSB

By Editors | 19/01/2023

Jurisdictions have not finished implementing Basel III reforms to mitigate spillovers between banks and non-bank financial entities.

Capital / Liquidity

ECB Identifies Weak Risk Management at EU Banks

By Editors | 18/01/2023

The ECB identified “material shortcomings” in how banks manage counterparty credit risks. Banks should “promptly address weaknesses”.

Capital / Liquidity

Chinese D-SIBs Have $550bn TLAC Shortfall: S&P Global Ratings

By Editors | 18/01/2023

Under rules released in 2021, China’s four G-SIBs will have to hold TLAC equal to 16 percent of their risk-weighted assets by 1 January 2025.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Tightens Rules on Ownership of Bank Shares

By Mark Johnston | 17/01/2023

The rules are intended to ensure control and ownership stay “well-diversified” and major shareholders are ‘fit and proper’.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Proposes to Adopt ECL Approach for Loan Provisioning

By Manesh Samtani | 17/01/2023

Indian banks currently still use the incurred loss model, which the RBI says delays NPA identification, loan reclassification, and provisioning.