Prudential Risk

Credit Risk

India Revises MSME Loan Resolution Rules

By Samuel Riding | 18/03/2016

Banks required to set up regional committees on stressed loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Model Risk

FASB Confirms Simplified Contingent Call, Put Reporting

By Samuel Riding | 18/03/2016

ISDA-backed guidance expected to reduce incidence of calls and puts being separately accounted for.

Structural Regulation

Myanmar to Issue New Banking Rules

By Samuel Riding | 17/03/2016

Regulations to cover bank corporate governance, foreign stakes and AML.

Trading & Investment

India Allows FPIs to Invest in Defaulted Bonds

By Samuel Riding | 16/03/2016

Securities regulator also allows foreign portfolio investors into REITs, infrastructure investment trusts and AIFs.

Capital Adequacy

BCBS Proposes Overhaul of Capital Disclosure Rules

By Samuel Riding | 16/03/2016

Committee wants large banks using internal models to provide standardised comparison with smaller peers.

Capital Adequacy

Basel III: Where Bank Risk Lies

By Peter Guy | 14/03/2016

Concluding Basel III’s targets marks a regulatory accomplishment, but big banks may not necessarily be safer or better run.

Capital Adequacy

China Banking Risk Controllable, says CBRC

By Editors | 14/03/2016

Chairman says regulators will work to prevent systemic financial risks.

Credit Risk

CBRC Warns on Lending to Industries with Overcapacity

By Editors | 14/03/2016

China banking regulator warns lenders about risks of exposure to borrowers with industrial overcapacity

Credit Risk

Equity Swaps to Ease Chinese Banks Bad Debt Burden

By Editors | 11/03/2016

Forthcoming regulation will allow NPL to be converted into stakes in firms to free up cash for investment.