Prudential Risk

Operational Risk

Pakistan, World Bank Ink Technical Cooperation Agreement

By Samuel Riding | 30/01/2017

Cooperation to focus on risk-based supervision and cybersecurity.

Anti-Money Laundering

PBOC Orders Banks to up Scrutiny of Overseas Business

By Samuel Riding | 30/01/2017

Banks should review acquisition targets’ future profitability, strengthen AML/CTF supervision.

Credit Risk

RBI to Push Back Asset Quality Review

By Samuel Riding | 30/01/2017

Banks said to have spent last two months dealing with impact of demonetisation.

Credit Risk

China Said to Order Mortgage Curbs

By Samuel Riding | 27/01/2017

PBOC could punish banks with lower rates on central bank deposits, higher deposit insurance charges.

Operational Risk

Queensland Treasury Corporation Picks Wolters Kluwer Finance, Risk and Reporting Platform

By Samuel Riding | 26/01/2017

Australia’s Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC), the Queensland Government’s central financing authority, has gone live on Wolters Kluwer’s integrated OneSumX Finance, […]

Market Risk

Fenergo Enhances Margin Requirements Software

By Samuel Riding | 26/01/2017

Fenergo announced significant enhancements to its module for margin requirements for non-centrally cleared OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives. Fenergo Margin Requirements is […]

Liquidity Risk

BOJ Warns on Banks’ Overseas Exposures

By Samuel Riding | 24/01/2017

Deputy governor urges caution despite sufficient liquidity to meet rising funding costs.

Capital Adequacy

What Trump’s Regulatory Rollback Could Mean for Asia

By Peter Guy | 23/01/2017

Inauguration speech a declaration of war against the establishment and could mark the reversal of major regulations.

Credit Risk

Singapore Banks Launch Unsecured Debt Schemes

By Samuel Riding | 18/01/2017

MAS is reducing unsecured borrowing limit to 12x monthly income by 2019.