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Emerging Prudential Risks
Chinese Government Approves WMP Clampdown
By Editors | 30/03/2018
New rules to reduce leverage, ban guarantees; financial court to be set up in Shanghai will jurisdiction over major legal cases.
Capital Adequacy
Indonesian D-SIBs Ordered to Boost Capital
By Editors | 29/03/2018
Regulator has imposed a Tier 1 capital surcharge between 1 and 3.5 percent on the country’s systemically important banks.
Operational Risk
Malaysia to Make Specialist Compliance, Risk Management Qualifications Compulsory
By Editors | 29/03/2018
BNM to introduce code of conduct for senior FI personnel, regulatory standards to govern banks’ increased outsourcing of functions.
Resolution & Recovery
Vietnam Establishes Early Intervention Mechanism for Ailing Banks
By Editors | 26/03/2018
New mechanism provides guidelines for SBV directors to take action as a credit institution profile weakens to contain risk.
Credit Risk
A Quarter of Loans at Bangladesh State Banks Non Performing
By Garima Chitkara | 26/03/2018
Current and former regulators have voiced concern over the the accumulation of bad loans in the banking sector; value of bad loans has trebled in the past six years.
Credit Risk
India to Implement Early Warning System for Broker Defaults
By Garima Chitkara | 26/03/2018
SEBI consulting on draft measures on norms on early detection of potential default among stock brokers through an Intelligent and Specific Early Warning System.
Capital Adequacy
Decline of the House of Basel
By Peter Guy | 26/03/2018
The Basel regime has shown itself to be incomplete and not universally applicable. With the Trump administration seeking to allow a return to proprietary trading, profound implications for global banks’ risk management are only just beginning to surface.
Structural Regulation
Taiwan Drafts Rules for Internet Only Banks
By Editors | 25/03/2018
FSC may authorise Japan’s Line Corp and Rakuten to operate as full-service banks in Taiwan.
Market Risk
Basel Committee Revises Capital Rules Under FRTB
By Manesh Samtani | 25/03/2018
Proposals include enhanced risk sensitivity and reduced risk weights for standardised approach; eased assessment process for internal models.
Clearing & Post-Trade
India Releases Risk Management Norms for Clearing Commodity Derivatives
By Garima Chitkara | 22/03/2018
Clearing corporations to maintain liquid assets after margins of INR5 million.
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