The FSC expects the regulatory relaxations will boost financial institutions’ capacity to provide up to 400 trillion won in additional financing to businesses.
April 20, 2020The RBI has cut the reverse repo rate, lowered the LCR requirement, restricted dividend payouts, and established new liquidity facilities for NBFCs and microfinance institutions.
April 18, 2020Regulatory reserves held against possible credit losses will be reduced by half. Banks are encouraged to use liquidity buffers built up under the LCR and LMR regimes.
April 5, 2020The move will allow ADIs to dedicate time and resources to maintaining their operations and supporting customers, APRA says.
March 30, 2020South Korean authorities will also reduce the amount of high-quality foreign assets banks need to hold to free up additional US dollar liquidity.
March 27, 2020Besides an NSFR relaxation, banks can drawdown on the capital conservation buffer, operate below 100% LCR, and utilise regulatory reserves they have set aside.
March 26, 2020The National Bank of Cambodia is also reducing interest rates on repo transactions with banks and encouraging more lending to the public.
March 19, 2020The 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, 2020A 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, 2020Universal banks, commercial banks and their subsidiary thrift banks and quasi-banks are required to submit the 'report on intraday liquidity' by end-June 2021, and every month thereafter.
January 7, 2020