All posts tagged "Capital adequacy"
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402Capital RegulationCBIRC Instructs Banks to Defer Loan Repayments for Small Businesses
The move follows all-time lows in China's manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMI figures, prompting analysts to cut their first quarter GDP growth forecasts to minus 6%.
March 2, 2020 -
380Asia-PacificBSP Approves ‘Enhanced’ Capital Requirements for Smaller Banks
The higher capital standards for stand-alone thrifts, rural and cooperative banks include a 6% minimum CET1 ratio, a 7.5% Tier 1 ratio, and a 2.5% capital conservation buffer.
February 28, 2020 -
552Capital RegulationFSC Korea to Tighten Financial Conglomerate Supervision from May
The FSC is revising its guidelines on the supervision of financial conglomerates to enhance capital adequacy assessments, disclosure rules, and internal controls requirements.
February 25, 2020 -
670Australia & NZAPRA Asks ADIs to Review, Improve Stress Testing Processes
Larger ADIs have better stress testing governance practices and scenario development processes, and make better use of stress test results, than smaller institutions.
February 24, 2020 -
708Big PictureBetter Supervision Associated with Lower Operational Risk: BIS Paper
Banks take an average 251 days to discover the occurrence of operational loss events, and 184 days to move from discovery and recognition, according to a new BIS paper.
February 14, 2020 -
627Capital Regulation
CBIRC Asks Banks to Relax Loan Classification Standards
Local banks are asked to be more tolerant of bad loans and to reduce their profit targets, as the novel coronavirus epidemic keeps borrowers from resuming normal business operations.
February 13, 2020 -
1.6KFeatureIMF, MAS Offer Guidance on Assessing Cyber Risk
A new IMF-MAS paper presents data sources and methods that can be used to analyse and assess cyber risk, illustrated with applications to Singapore.
February 13, 2020 -
1.7KCapital RegulationSea and Grab-Singtel “Leading Singapore Digital Bank Race”
S&P Global Market Intelligence believes digital banking contenders Sea and the Grab-Singtel consortium are the most likely to gain coveted digital bank licences in Singapore.
February 12, 2020 -
1.1KAML / KYCSingapore’s Payment Services Act Comes Into Force
The PS Act gives MAS formal supervisory powers over technology, cybersecurity and AML/CFT controls at payment services firms, including cryptocurrency and e-wallet companies.
January 28, 2020 -
1.6KContributed ArticleMalaysia Joins Digital Banking Revolution with Exposure Draft
Herbert Smith Freehills breaks down Malaysia's new framework for digital banks, comparing the regime to those in Singapore and Hong Kong.
January 14, 2020
