Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

S. Korea Bans Mortgage Lending on High-Priced Homes

By Editors | 18/12/2019

To protect against a looming housing bubble, Korea has banned mortgage loans on homes valued over 1.5 billion won in government-designated speculative areas.

Capital / Liquidity

Chinese Banks Told to Further Reduce Small Business Borrowing Costs

By Editors | 18/12/2019

The State Council has asked banks to further lower financing costs for small and micro businesses and to increase lending to such businesses by 20% over the next year.

Capital / Liquidity

HKMA Moderates Approach to Implementing Market Risk Framework

By Editors | 18/12/2019

The HKMA says it will finalise Hong Kong’s timeline when there is more clarity on the implementation status in other major jurisdictions.

Capital / Liquidity

New Zealand Passes Bill to End Predatory Lending

By Editors | 17/12/2019

Effective from April 2021, the bill will cap the interest and fees on loans at 100% of the loan amount and introduce a 0.8% per day rate cap for high-cost loans.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Investigates Westpac, Imposes Capital Surcharge

By Editors | 17/12/2019

APRA’s investigation will focus on the conduct that led to Westpac’s alleged 23 million AML breaches, and whether its senior managers breached the Banking Act, including the BEAR.

Capital / Liquidity

Basel Committee Launches Consolidated Basel Framework

By Editors | 16/12/2019

The framework brings together all of the Basel Committee’s global standards for the regulation and supervision of banks.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Updates Prudential Standard on Credit Risk Management

By Editors | 13/12/2019

The revised prudential standard on credit risk management will come into effect from 1 January 2021, six months later than was proposed in a March consultation.

AML / KYC

BCBS Solicits Comments on Prudential Treatment for Crypto Assets

By Manesh Samtani | 12/12/2019

The BCBS proposes to allocate direct crypto-asset holdings to the banking book, and indirect exposures to the trading book, while prohibiting the use of internal models to calculate market risk.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Issues Final Operational Risk Requirements for ADIs

By Editors | 12/12/2019

The prudential standard comes into effect from 1 January 2021 for ADIs using advanced measurement approaches to calculate the required capital for operational risk.