Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

FSS Korea Outlines Supervision and Inspection Workplan for 2024

By Editors | 09/03/2024

Supervision and inspections will assess the ability of financial firms to prevent real estate-related risks from spreading to the financial system, among other areas.

Securities / Derivatives

EMEs Can Improve Shock Resilience With Better Hedging Markets

By Manesh Samtani | 09/03/2024

The BIS finds that emerging markets with a more diverse investor base and better-developed hedging markets tend to have more resilient government bond markets.

Capital / Liquidity

Chinese D-SIBS May Not Need as Much TLAC After All

By Manesh Samtani | 08/03/2024

In a new report, S&P Global Ratings says the revised capital management rules for banks issued in November could reduce previously estimated TLAC shortfalls.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS Proposes Revisions to Address ‘Window-Dressing’

By Manesh Samtani | 08/03/2024

The BCBS proposes to require banks to report and disclose most G-SIB indicators based on average values over the reporting year, rather than year-end values.

Capital / Liquidity

Taiwan FSC to Allow Insurers to Issue Capital Bonds Overseas

By Editors | 07/03/2024

Cathay Life Insurance has already announced it will establish an SPV in Singapore to issue bonds, which would make it the first to take advantage of the revision.

Capital / Liquidity

Non-Banks Can Apply for ESAS Access at Year-End: RBNZ

By Editors | 07/03/2024

The RBNZ said its final ESAS access policy will balance its initial risk-based approach against the innovation and competition benefits the access will bring.

Capital / Liquidity

HK Banks Stop Offering Mortgage Loans for Speculation

By Editors | 07/03/2024

Many banks have stopped providing mortgages for confirmor transactions, due to signs that speculative interest is reemerging in the property market.

ESG / Sustainability

RBNZ Considers Ways to Build Climate Risk into Credit Risk Weights

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 07/03/2024

When considering any future changes to the approach to setting risk weights, the RBNZ will ensure they are data-driven and explicitly linked to financial risk.

Capital / Liquidity

Basel III Monitoring Shows Bank Capital Ratios “Largely Stable”

By Manesh Samtani | 07/03/2024

Capital shortfalls under the final Basel III standards increased slightly for large internationally active banks, which saw record profits.