Prudential Risk

Structural Regulation

RBI Seeks Greater Oversight Over Co-Operative Banks

By Editors | 14/08/2015

The Reserve Bank of India has asked the government to amend laws which will allow the regulator to grant commercial bank licences to urban co-operative banks.

Resolution & Recovery

S. Korea Regulator to Set Up Corporate Restructuring Entity

By Editors | 13/08/2015

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission will set up a corporate restructuring entity in mid-October, in a bid to help ailing companies restructure and stay afloat as long as possible.

Structural Regulation

Taiwan Bank Approved for Consumer Finance JV in China

By Editors | 13/08/2015

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission has granted approval for CTBC Bank to become the first Taiwanese bank set up a consumer financing joint venture in China.

Credit Risk

China Licenses More Local Governments to Operate “Bad Banks”

By Editors | 13/08/2015

The China Banking Regulatory Commission has granted new “bad bank” licences to the provincial governments of Ningxia and Guangxi, allowing them to buy up and restructure bad debt from the balance sheets of rural credit cooperatives and local banks.

Liquidity Risk

Certificates of Deposit Push Banks to Shift to New Norm

By Editors | 12/08/2015

The PBOC issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of Certificates of Deposit in June this year, an examination into the impact of the recent notice.

Capital Adequacy

Proprietary Trading: It’s Still Out There

By Peter Guy | 10/08/2015

The Volker rule was supposed to end proprietary trading, but it has only found a new home inside banks.

Emerging Prudential Risks

Pakistan Drafts Regulatory Framework for D-SIBs

By Editors | 10/08/2015

The State Bank of Pakistan has designed a regulatory framework for identifying and overseeing the nation’s Domestic Systemically Important Banks, as part of its commitment to ensure stability of financial system and further strengthen the supervisory and regulatory regime.

Credit Risk

China Further Opens Distressed Market to Asset Managers

By Editors | 07/08/2015

China’s Ministry of Finance has granted “bad bank” licences to three asset management companies (AMCs) allowing them to buy non-financial distressed assets from corporates directly.

Liquidity Risk

Stable Funding is Key to Business Expansion, says Wolters Kluwer

By Editors | 07/08/2015

Banks should be cautious expanding their business and avoid over-reliance on wholesale funding, according to a white paper by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.