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Credit Risk
PBOC Removes Limits on Credit Card Rates – Report
By Editors | 17/01/2021
The new policy is expected to benefit smaller card issuers and encourage competition from internet platforms and tech giants.
Cybersecurity
Covid-19 Has Changed the Cyber Threat Landscape: BIS
By Manesh Samtani | 15/01/2021
During the pandemic, there was a strong link between the prevalence of work-from-home arrangements and the incidence of cyber attacks, particularly at financial institutions.
Clearing & Post-Trade
Calls to Recalibrate CCP Margin Models Are Misplaced: WFE
By Editors | 14/01/2021
The procyclicality of initial margin models is a property of the system as a whole and so requires system-wide solutions, the WFE says in a new paper.
Credit Risk
RBI Warns of Deteriorating Asset Quality, Capital Buffers
By Editors | 14/01/2021
Stress tests indicate 4 banks may fail to meet minimum capital requirements by September 2021 under the baseline scenario.
Credit Risk
Chinese Regulators to Force Ant, Tencent to Share Borrower Data
By Editors | 14/01/2021
Ant Group affiliate Alibaba and Tencent have so far been resistant to sharing their loan data with credit databases such as Baihang.
Structural Regulation
DTCC Outlines Key Risk Management Priorities for FMIs
By Editors | 14/01/2021
In a new white paper, DTCC highlights the need for financial market infrastructures to focus on risks created or exacerbated by the impact of the pandemic.
Credit Risk
China to Allow Banks to Dispose of Non-performing Personal Loans
By Editors | 13/01/2021
Banks have reportedly been asked to prepare for a trial programme that will see China’s bad debt managers buy up soured personal loans.
Cybersecurity
ORX Launches Central Hub to Facilitate Cyber Risk Management
By Editors | 12/01/2021
The central hub allows cyber and information security risk management professionals to collaborate, exchange ideas and learn from each other’s practices.
Supervision & Enforcement
BSP Deploys New Supervisory Assessment Framework
By Editors | 12/01/2021
SAFr aims to facilitate forward-looking assessments of financial institutions and link their systemic importance and risk profile to the level of supervisory attention they receive.
Sustainable Finance
PBOC Outlines Work Programme, Policy Priorities for 2021
By Editors | 12/01/2021
The priorities include measures to promote green finance, expand the opening up of the financial system, deepen bond market reforms, and tackle financial system risk.
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