Prudential Risk

Payments & Settlements

Thailand Eases Capital Controls to Stem Currency’s Rise

By Editors | 08/11/2019

Investors are allowed to invest up to $200,000 in foreign securities without going through a Thai intermediary, and restrictions on outward fund transfers have been eased.

Liquidity Risk

RBI Revises NBFC Rules on Liquidity Risk Management

By Editors | 07/11/2019

The guidelines impose minimum LCR requirements on larger NBFCs from December 2020 and additionally seek to enhance early detection of liquidity risks in the sector.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

RBI Issues Stricter Rules on Bank Executive Compensation

By Editors | 06/11/2019

Executive compensation should be at least 50% variable, and at least 60% of the variable pay must be deferred for at least three years, subject to malus/clawback arrangements.

Capital Adequacy

Capital Buffers Are Designed to Be Used: BCBS

By Editors | 05/11/2019

Banks that draw down on their buffers in times of stress are not deemed to be in breach of their minimum regulatory capital requirements.

Structural Regulation

Singapore Banking Amendment Bill Introduced in Parliament

By Editors | 05/11/2019

The bill will remove the DBU-ACU divide, expand the grounds for which MAS can revoke bank licences, and empower MAS to regulate outsourcing arrangements.

Capital Adequacy

Japan Banks to Gain Easier Access to Capital from Larger Peers

By Editors | 05/11/2019

Under a special measure to be launched in March, a bank’s capital-to-asset ratio will not be reduced when it invests in a struggling peer.

Credit Risk

SEBI Mandates Immediate Disclosure of NPA Divergences

By Editors | 04/11/2019

SEBI has directed listed banks to disclose any divergences in bad loan provisioning immediately, rather than waiting to publish the information in their annual financial statements.

Emerging Prudential Risks

RBI Reorganises Regulation, Supervision Departments

By Editors | 04/11/2019

The RBI has integrated all its supervision functions into a unified ‘Department of Supervision’, and its regulatory functions into a unified ‘Department of Regulation’.

Liquidity Risk

PBOC, CBIRC Forced to Reassure Depositors After Bank Run

By Editors | 04/11/2019

Authorities were forced to step in after depositors rushed to withdraw their savings from Yichuan Bank amid rumours that the bank was insolvent and a corruption probe into the bank’s former chairman.