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Credit Risk
Bangladesh Bank Relaxes Credit Risk Rating System
By Editors | 27/02/2022
The relaxation will allow for easier issuance of loans and credit, thereby helping to accelerate business activities across the country, Bangladesh Bank said.
Operational Risk
BSP Issues Revised Outsourcing Rules for Banks
By Editors | 27/02/2022
Banks need BSP approval to enter into material outsourcing arrangements. They must also conduct periodic assessments to ensure outsourcing risks are properly managed.
Supervision & Enforcement
APRA Super Fund Performance Test Results in Mergers, Exits
By Editors | 27/02/2022
13 super funds failed APRA’s inaugural MySuper Product Performance Test last August. The worst performer, Maritime Super, is in talks to merge with industry fund Hostplus.
Credit Risk
Taiwan Raises Risk Weights Banks Have to Apply to Mortgages
By Darien Choong | 27/02/2022
Banks whose capital adequacy falls below the regulatory minimum as a result of the new risk weights will have to reduce risk-weighted assets or raise new capital.
Credit Risk
CBIRC Incentivises HK Cat Bond Issuance by Mainland Insurers
By Editors | 27/02/2022
Preferential treatment in place since 2018 has been extended to mainland insurers that issue catastrophe bonds in the Hong Kong market.
Climate Risk
PBOC Concludes First Phase of Climate Risk Stress Tests
By Editors | 27/02/2022
Defaults in the thermal power, steel and cement sectors may increase if companies in those sectors do not shift to low-carbon alternatives.
Credit Risk
China Continues Work to Defend Against Property Sector Woes
By Manesh Samtani | 24/02/2022
Lenders are being asked to accelerate lending to homebuyers and developers. Bad debt managers are being asked to buy up property assets and help restructure smaller lenders.
Cryptocurrency
Russia Considers Framework for Regulating Cryptocurrencies
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 24/02/2022
The draft proposes requirements for VASPs relating to corporate governance, tax reporting, data storage, internal controls, risk management, client identification/KYC and segregation of assets.
Emerging Prudential Risks
RBNZ to Gradually Unwind QE Programme Starting in July
By Ranamita Chakraborty | 24/02/2022
Rather than sell bonds back into the secondary market, the RBNZ will sell them to the Treasury at a pace of NZD 5 billion each fiscal year.
Credit Risk
Malaysia Announces New Programme to Boost MSME Funding
By Editors | 23/02/2022
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the programme include direct loans, financing guarantees and equity injections.
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