Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

More Chinese Institutions to be Designated ‘Systemically Important’

By Manesh Samtani | 29/11/2018

Regulators will designate more financial institutions as ‘too big to fail’ and subject them to additional prudential and supervisory requirements.

Capital / Liquidity

S. Korean Financial Holding Companies Opposed to Bail-in Regime

By Editors | 28/11/2018

The financial holding companies say that a bail-in regime could lead to lower credit ratings and higher bank funding costs, based on an implied reduction in government support during a crisis.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Extends Timeline for Capital Reforms to Align with Basel III

By Editors | 27/11/2018

APRA will align capital reforms with Basel III timelines, effectively pushing implementation to 1 January 2022. It has also adjusted the leverage ratio in response to consultative feedback.

Capital / Liquidity

Singapore Banking System Can Withstand Severe Shocks – MAS

By Manesh Samtani | 26/11/2018

The MAS financial stability review says asset quality is improving despite loan growth, and banks continue to maintain healthy provisioning and liquid assets “well above regulatory requirements”.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Agrees to Ease Bank Capital, Lending Norms Following Board Meeting

By Garima Chitkara | 20/11/2018

The central bank also agreed to allow SMEs to restructure loans and extend the deadline for banks to comply with the capital conservation buffer by one year.

Capital / Liquidity

China Deleveraging Campaign to Slow Amid Trade Tensions – Moody’s

By Editors | 19/11/2018

While long-term deleveraging and de-risking remain in place, China’s authorities are likely to rely to a greater extent on public sector spending to support growth.

Capital / Liquidity

Royal Bank of Scotland Removed From G-SIB List

By Garima Chitkara | 19/11/2018

The Financial Stability Board has added France’s Groupe BPCE to its 2018 list of global-systemically important banks and removed RBS and Nordea.

Capital / Liquidity

Hong Kong Set to Finalise TLAC Rules

By Garima Chitkara | 19/11/2018

New rules governing bank TLAC holdings, concentration risk in sovereign exposures have been gazetted and will be presented before LegCo on 21 November.

Capital / Liquidity

India’s Government, RBI Close to Solution on Bank Lending Dispute

By Garima Chitkara | 15/11/2018

The government and RBI have reached a temporary agreement on some issues after an unprecedented public spat between the two caused alarm about the central bank’s independence.