The 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, 2020The move will free up a total 400 billion yuan at small and medium-sized lenders, allowing them to provide additional financing to SMEs.
April 5, 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 Philippines has halted stock, bond and currency trading 'until further notice'. The BSP is urging banks to provide financial relief to customers and employees.
March 17, 2020The OECD recommends providing banks with liquidity to allow them to help companies with cash-flow problems, and to consider reducing reserve requirements.
March 3, 2020The relief measures may include grace periods for rediscounting loans, staggered booking of credit losses, non-imposition of penalties for reserve deficiencies, and non-recognition of loan defaults.
March 2, 2020HKMA chief Eddie Yue indicated a willingness to be flexible towards banks facing difficulties in meeting regulatory requirements.
February 13, 2020Higher capital requirements could accelerate the unwinding of cross-shareholdings, a Japanese practice of owning shares in business partners.
January 27, 2020The PBOC will pay just 0.35% annually on customer money that payments firms hold with the central bank, but the move marks a reversal of an earlier decision to pay no interest.
January 10, 2020