Prudential Risk

Capital Adequacy

APRA Adjusts Capital Treatment of Equity Investment in Subsidiaries

By Editors | 10/11/2020

The move is aimed at ensuring that any new or additional equity investments by banks in subsidiaries is backed by appropriate capital to reduce the risk to Australian depositors.

Operational Risk

FSB Advances Dialogue on Outsourcing, Third Party Relationships

By Manesh Samtani | 09/11/2020

An outage or failure at a single third party could create a single point of failure with potential adverse consequences for financial stability, the FSB says.

Supervision & Enforcement

SFC Fines Credit Suisse Securities Over Market Making Errors

By Editors | 09/11/2020

Credit Suisse Securities submitted 17,000 erroneous market making quotes to the market in 8 minutes due to a logic error in its symbol mapping programme.

Credit Risk

BNM Announces Targeted Borrower Relief Under Record National Budget

By Editors | 09/11/2020

Among the measures, BNM will establish a 2bn ringgit facility for SMEs to borrow from participating FIs at concessionary rates and with a government guarantee.

Liquidity Risk

SEBI to Require Debt Funds to Hold Liquid Assets, Stress Test

By Editors | 09/11/2020

Open-ended debt mutual fund schemes will have to hold at least 10% of their net assets in liquid assets, and mandatorily conduct stress testing.

Emerging Prudential Risks

Key Risks to Financial System Have Been Contained: PBOC

By Editors | 08/11/2020

However, the PBOC believes the world economy is still in a period of deep adjustment, amid concerns that the risk of debt defaults has increased.

Credit Risk

RBI Allows Banks, NBFCs Added Co-lending Flexibility

By Editors | 08/11/2020

The new Co-Lending Model permits banks to co-lend with all registered NBFCs, providing greater operational flexibility to lenders and lowering borrower costs.

Liquidity Risk

APRA Announces A$35b Reduction in Committed Liquidity Facility

By Editors | 06/11/2020

Five banks applied for a reduction, reducing the aggregate CLF allocated to banks from A$223bn at 1 January 2020 to A$188 billion.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

PBOC Raises Bar for Executives of Financial Holding Companies

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 05/11/2020

Under the proposed rules, the PBOC will be able to sanction financial holding companies whose directors, supervisors, and senior officials do not meet the job requirements.