Prudential Risk

Credit Risk

HKMA Warns on Aggressive Mortgage Lending

By Samuel Riding | 21/06/2016

Developers’ offering up to 95% mortgages increases banks’ credit risk, deputy head says.

Emerging Prudential Risks

RBI Governor Rajan to Step Down

By Samuel Riding | 20/06/2016

RBI governor decides not to renew term, will return to academia.

Capital Adequacy

CSRC Revises Securities Firm Risk Controls

By Samuel Riding | 20/06/2016

Measures include risk management staffing, system requirements to be implemented on 1 October.

Credit Risk

Vietnam Tells Foreign Banks to Report IR Data

By Samuel Riding | 19/06/2016

State bank says foreign lenders should also report information on loans and ‘capital mobilisation’.

Liquidity Risk

HK SFC Planning Fund Liquidity Rules

By Editors | 17/06/2016

Regulators’ increasingly concerned about role of investment funds as source of systemic risk.

Structural Regulation

No Super-Regulator Soon, China Think Tank Says

By Samuel Riding | 17/06/2016

Influential research center says reform should focus on ‘regulatory philosophy’ over next 2-3 years.

Liquidity Risk

S.Korea Revamps Capital Control Rules

By Samuel Riding | 17/06/2016

Authorities concerned about capital outflows due to ‘external risks’.

Payments & Settlements

Japan Probes Banks’ Currency Settlement Risk

By Samuel Riding | 16/06/2016

Financial Services Agency to check whether banks and brokers use automated services.

Emerging Prudential Risks

Regulation and the Buy Side’s Role in Liquidity

By Samuel Riding | 16/06/2016

Asian regulators are starting to consider how to minimise the risks in investment funds’ growing role as market makers.