CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

BSEC Secures Pledge from Brokers to Support Stock Market

By Manesh Samtani | 10/08/2022

Merchant bankers also agreed to provide support. Listed companies were asked to form market-making subsidiaries. Bangladesh Bank amended its rules on calculating bank exposure limits.

Capital / Liquidity

MAS Revises Notice to Implement IRRBB Disclosure Requirements

By Editors | 09/08/2022

The revised Notice 637 will take effect from 1 January 2023, implementing the revised Pillar 3 disclosure requirements for IRRBB.

Capital / Liquidity

China to Allow Foreign Firms to Establish Finance Companies

By Darien Choong | 09/08/2022

The proposed rules also raise the capital requirements for finance companies, while strengthening risk management and governance obligations.

Capital / Liquidity

New Zealand to Further Revise Responsible Lending Rules

By Editors | 09/08/2022

This is the second tranche of changes to the CCCFA regulations, which have been criticised for making it too difficult for borrowers to obtain loans.

Market Infrastructure

CPMI-IOSCO Explores How CCPs Address Non-default Losses

By Editors | 08/08/2022

New paper aims to help advance industry efforts and dialogue on the concepts and processes used by CCPs to address losses from non-default events, such as cyber attacks.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS Warns of Risky Real Estate and Leveraged Loans

By Editors | 08/08/2022

The pandemic and recent inflation have heightened credit risk concerns. Supervisors have observed higher-risk and deficient lending practices.

Big Picture

Activity-based & Entity-based Regulation Reinforce Each Other’s Effectiveness

By Editors | 05/08/2022

A new paper from the Financial Stability Institute says neither entity-based nor activity-based regulation is in and of itself the optimal choice.

Capital / Liquidity

CBIRC to Prioritise Bank Capital, Property Market in H2

By Darien Choong | 03/08/2022

At a meeting last week, the CBIRC said it would focus its work on enhancing regional banks’ capital positions and ensuring the stability of the real estate market.

Capital / Liquidity

China New Futures and Derivatives Law Takes Effect

By Manesh Samtani | 02/08/2022

On the same day, ISDA published a netting opinion providing legal certainty that close-out netting is enforceable in China.