Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

Taiwan To Ease M&A Rules For Financial Holding Companies

By Garima Chitkara | 14/06/2018

New rules lower the threshold for initiating a tender offer from 25 percent to 10 percent; new rules to only apply to private-sector firms.

Capital / Liquidity

China Requires Corporate Credit Data to be Shared Among Banks

By Manesh Samtani | 11/06/2018

New rules establish information sharing mechanism among lenders for collective gathering and cross-validating business and financial information of borrowers.

Capital / Liquidity

South Korea Consults On New Bank Capital Rules

By Garima Chitkara | 11/06/2018

Korean FSS consulting to improve bank capital regime by tweaking risk weights on some loans and fine-tuning asset classification rules on restructured firms.

Capital / Liquidity

Volcker Rule – Road to Reform or Ruin?

By Peter Guy | 11/06/2018

Proposed changes by the Trump Administration to the Volcker Rule are already controversial. Linking cause and effect to risk management have only resulted in an excessively complex regulation that is proving difficult to reform in a “too big to fail” industry.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Continues to Allow Banks to Spread Bond Losses Over Four Quarters

By Garima Chitkara | 11/06/2018

RBI has allowed banks to spread bond trading losses incurred in the April-June quarter over four quarters, but changes rules on valuation of state government debt.

Capital / Liquidity

FSB Seeks Feedback on TLAC Implementation, Adequacy

By JP Reimann | 07/06/2018

Review focused on regulatory adoption, cross-border aspects of implementation, overall progress towards meeting TLAC requirements, instruments issuance and distribution, among others.

Capital / Liquidity

The Philippines Adopts NSFR For Large Banks

By Garima Chitkara | 07/06/2018

Banks given six months starting 1 July to start reporting NSFR; banks unable to meet the ratio will need to submit funding plan to the central bank.

Capital / Liquidity

FSB Consults on Third Peer Review on Bank Resolution

By JP Reimann | 06/06/2018

Focus on D-SIBs and other banks that could be systemic in failure and are included in resolution planning at a jurisdictional level; feedback sought by 4 July.

Capital / Liquidity

Sri Lanka State Banks Undercapitalised for Basel – Fitch

By Manesh Samtani | 05/06/2018

Large state banks short an estimated $120mn in capital, of which state banks account for 72%; government infusion may be needed to meet Basel III 2019 requirements.