Prudential Risk

Liquidity Risk

Australia Revises Funding Ratio, LCR Proposals

By Samuel Riding | 29/09/2016

APRA chairman says deposit-taking institutions now obtain funding from ‘more stable’ sources.

Capital Adequacy

BCBS Confirms Leave from Basel to Support Financial Inclusion

By Samuel Riding | 28/09/2016

Committee confirms institutions can be compliant with its Core Principles without implementing Basel I, II or III.

Emerging Prudential Risks

The Idiosyncratic Risks of Financial Groups

By Samuel Riding | 28/09/2016

Paper by OECD’s Takahiro Yasui explores corporate governance responses to five main risks.

Structural Regulation

China to Approve 14 Private Banks

By Samuel Riding | 26/09/2016

Vice chairman of CBRC says possibility of bank failure should be allowed.

Capital Adequacy

New Zealand to Enhance Bank Disclosure Rules

By Samuel Riding | 26/09/2016

Proposal aims to improve efficiency of prudential requirements for banks and non-bank deposit takers.

Capital Adequacy

S.Korea ‘Largely Compliant’ With Basel III, BIS Says

By Samuel Riding | 22/09/2016

Country found to fully meet 12 of 14 risk-based capital regulations; compliant with LCR rules.

Emerging Prudential Risks

China Shadow Banking Could Prompt Next Bailout – CLSA

By Samuel Riding | 20/09/2016

Failures could cause bank run, and authorities would have to intervene, head of China strategy says.

Supervision & Enforcement

Regulation Should be a Scalpel not a Hammer

By Peter Guy | 19/09/2016

Deutsche Bank’s $14bn fine leaves the public wondering why bank penalties continue to grow with no end in sight.

Credit Risk

APRA to Revise Counterparty Credit Risk Framework

By Samuel Riding | 16/09/2016

Revisions aims to align framework with Basel changes.