Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

BNM Issues Draft Framework on Recovery, Resolution Planning

By Editors | 20/01/2020

Each financial institution will be required to identify and plan for the execution of a suite of recovery options to restore its long-term viability under a range of stress events.

Capital / Liquidity

Sri Lanka Offers Credit Support for Banks to Boost SME Lending

By Editors | 18/01/2020

The new scheme provides risk mitigation support to banks that defer principal repayment and extend new loans for SME borrowers, including those that have defaulted.

Capital / Liquidity

Sri Lanka to Enact New Banking Act in 2021

By Editors | 10/01/2020

The new Banking Act will streamline the licensing process, branch approvals, and adopt a proportionality framework for banking regulations, among other changes.

Capital / Liquidity

12 Banks Fail to Meet Bangladesh Capital Requirement

By Editors | 10/01/2020

The total capital shortfall among the 12 banks was reported to be over $2bn as of the end of September, amid rising bad loans in the banking sector.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Introduces Supervisory Action Framework for Troubled UCBs

By Editors | 09/01/2020

Under the framework, the RBI will monitor UCBs’ asset quality, profitability and capital, and initiate supervisory action when specific thresholds are breached.

Capital / Liquidity

Three Emerging Risk Issues for Banks in Hong Kong

By Simon Topping | 09/01/2020

There are three key areas where Hong Kong regulators are expected to turn up the heat in 2020, says KPMG’s Simon Topping.

Capital / Liquidity

Bangladesh Banks Given Final Deadline to Cut Lending, Deposit Rates

By Editors | 07/01/2020

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says banks have a final deadline of 1 April to bring down the maximum lending rate to 9% and the maximum deposit rate to 6%.

Capital / Liquidity

PBOC Announces First Reserve Requirement Cut of 2020

By Editors | 03/01/2020

The RRR cut will release about 800bn yuan of ‘long-term funds’ for financial institutions to lend to the real economy.

Capital / Liquidity

UPDATE – RBI Tightens Scrutiny of Urban Cooperative Banks

By Editors | 31/12/2019

The RBI is tightening exposure limits, mandating that a larger proportion of loans come from small borrowers, and requiring bigger UCBs to report large exposures on a quarterly basis.