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Capital / Liquidity
MAS Gets New Mechanism to Transfer Excess Reserves to GIC
By Darien Choong | 17/01/2022
MAS will transfer about SGD 185 billion in excess reserves to the government in stages. GIC is estimated to become the world’s third-largest sovereign wealth fund as a result.
Capital / Liquidity
HKMA Issues Draft Guidance on Liquidity and Funding in Resolution
By Manesh Samtani | 16/01/2022
The HKMA expects banks to be able to model liquidity and funding needs in a resolution scenario over various time horizons.
Capital / Liquidity
RBI Proposes New Classification Norms for Bank Investments
By Editors | 14/01/2022
The RBI proposes to divide banks’ investment portfolios into three categories – held-to-maturity, available for sale, and fair value through profit and loss account.
Capital / Liquidity
FSC Korea Issues New Rules for Mutual Finance Companies
By Editors | 13/01/2022
The rules will limit lending to the real estate and construction sectors and require mutual finance companies to maintain a minimum liquidity ratio based on firm size.
Big Picture
FRTB Will Turn Banks Away from Fund Investment Activity
By Manesh Samtani | 13/01/2022
The FRTB treatment of equity investments in funds is “excessively conservative” and could prompt banks to reduce their activity in the sector, ultimately weakening the market.
Capital / Liquidity
RBI Updates Liquidity Standards to Align with Basel Norms
By Editors | 11/01/2022
The RBI has raised the deposit threshold under which small business customers can be managed as retail deposits for the purposes of LCR and NSFR.
Capital / Liquidity
Japan Extends Leverage Ratio Relaxation to Support Bank Lending
By Editors | 09/01/2022
Central bank deposits will be excluded from total exposure when calculating the leverage ratio until the end of March 2024.
Capital / Liquidity
RBI Publishes List of Indian D-SIBs for 2022
By Editors | 05/01/2022
SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank continue to be identified as D-SIBs, under the same bucketing structure as in the 2020 list.
Capital / Liquidity
HKMA Unveils Results of Climate Risk Stress Tests
By Manesh Samtani | 03/01/2022
The HKMA has also finalised its guidance on climate risk management, giving banks until end-2022 to implement the new measures.
Capital / Liquidity
CBIRC Finalises Liquidity Management Rules for WMPs
By Darien Choong | 30/12/2021
The rules emphasise the integration of liquidity risk management throughout the entire process of wealth management business operations.
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