Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

China Details Banking Sector Liberalisation

By Garima Chitkara | 03/01/2018

CBRC will support foreign bank branches entry into government bond-related businesses, loosen RMB retail deposit-taking requirements for foreign bank branches.

Capital / Liquidity

OJK Takes Over Credit Information Management from BI

By Garima Chitkara | 02/01/2018

Indonesian financial regulator will take over arranging, developing and managing credit information systems from central bank.

Capital / Liquidity

ICBC designated as D-SIB by HKMA

By Garima Chitkara | 02/01/2018

The bank will be required to include HLA buffer in their regulatory capital calculation within 12 months of the designation.

Capital / Liquidity

HSBC, StanChart Only HK Stocks to Fall Under MiFIR

By Editors | 29/12/2017

Only two Hong Kong-listed stocks have sufficient EU volume to comply with MiFIR trading obligations.

Capital / Liquidity

China, Japan to Cooperate on Audit Oversight, Cross-Border Bonds

By Editors | 26/12/2017

The agreement will strengthen cross-border investor protection and assist financial institutions with cross-border bond issuance.

Capital / Liquidity

India Financial System Stable Despite Worsening Asset Quality – RBI

By Garima Chitkara | 26/12/2017

Gross NPAs and asset quality likely to worsen until September 2018 even as capital flows into equity and debt markets remain elevated.

Capital / Liquidity

ESMA Gives Investment Firms, Issuers More Time on LEIs

By Editors | 21/12/2017

Six months forbearance to be allowed for obtaining LEI codes from clients, non-EU issuers of financial instruments.

Capital / Liquidity

HK SFC to Remove Corporate Treasury of non-Financial Firms from OTC Regulation

By Samuel Riding | 21/12/2017

Extensive consultation also proposes to expand risk mitigation requirements to ‘all licensed corporations’, rejects idea of regulatory threshold.

Capital / Liquidity

MAS to Expand Range of Eligible Collateral to Include Commodities for IRB Banks

By Editors | 21/12/2017

Banks using internal ratings for credit risk under Basel guidelines will be allowed to have commodities as physical collateral.