CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

China: Major State-owned Banks Start Lowering Mortgage Rates

By Manesh Samtani | 30/10/2024

The move is expected to benefit 50 million households, enabling them to save an estimated CNY 150 billion (USD 21 billion) a year.

Capital / Liquidity

PBOC Launches New Facility to Help Manage Banking System Liquidity

By Editors | 29/10/2024

The facility can be used by the PBOC to conduct outright reverse repo transactions with primary dealers in open market operations on a monthly basis.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI’s LCR Plan Will Force Indian Banks to Rework Strategy

By Nithya Subramanian | 28/10/2024

The RBI has proposed an additional 5 percent run off factor for retail digital banking accounts. Other regulators are waiting for guidance from the BCBS.

Big Picture

Banks, Central Banks Expect Tokenised Assets to “Leapfrog” in Asia

By Georgina Lee | 28/10/2024

Banks are actively exploring tokenisation use cases in Asia, saying the region has greater potential for the technology than Western countries.

Capital / Liquidity

New York Fed Says Banks are Obscuring Risks of CRE Loans

By Thisanka Siripala | 26/10/2024

New paper says banks are using “extend-and-pretend” tactics as a way to avoid recognising distressed loans in the commercial real estate market.

Capital / Liquidity

MAS Consults on Risk-based Capital Framework For Insurers

By Nithya Subramanian | 25/10/2024

MAS proposes to introduce differentiated capital treatment for infrastructure investments and to revise the approach for structured products under the RBC 2 framework.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Amends Operational Risk Financial Requirement for Super Funds

By Thisanka Siripala | 25/10/2024

The amendments to the operational risk financial requirement (ORFR) under SPS 114 will take effect from 1 July 2025, to align with CPS 230.

Capital / Liquidity

State Bank of Vietnam to Inject Capital into Vietcombank

By Mark Johnston | 25/10/2024

The capital injection is intended to boost state-owned Vietcombank’s capacity to support government policies and economic stability.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS Chair Warns Against Watering Down Basel III Rules

By Thisanka Siripala | 25/10/2024

A fragmented bank regulatory world could trigger “a race to the bottom” across jurisdictions and result in a “frail regulatory framework”, said Erik Thedeen.