CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

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.

Capital / Liquidity

HKMA Removes Bank of East Asia from D-SIBs List

By Editors | 28/12/2021

The Bank of East Asia was no longer identified as a D-SIB in the assessment considering its systemic importance relative to other institutions, the HKMA said.