Capital / Liquidity

Capital / Liquidity

Moody’s Upgrades Vietnamese Banks on Improved Asset Quality

By Editors | 09/04/2018

Asia Commercial Bank shows improvement since imprisonment of former vice chairman for fraud, tax evasion and illegal trade.

Capital / Liquidity

Singapore Bank Resolution Regime Favours Bailouts Over Credit Bail-ins – Moody’s

By Garima Chitkara | 05/04/2018

Singapore regulations favour bailouts over creditor bail-ins as bail-in buffers only comprise 1-2% of Singapore bank assets, says Moody’s.

Capital / Liquidity

Bangladesh Grants Lifeline to Private Banks Amid Liquidity Crisis

By Manesh Samtani | 03/04/2018

Government cuts cash reserve requirement to free up 100 billion takas, allows state agencies to boost deposits at private commercial banks.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS Publishes Study on Early Supervisory Intervention Practices

By Editors | 03/04/2018

Intervention action should be taken to correct unsafe or unsound banking practices before rules and buffers are materially breached.

Capital / Liquidity

Indonesian D-SIBs Ordered to Boost Capital

By Editors | 29/03/2018

Regulator has imposed a Tier 1 capital surcharge between 1 and 3.5 percent on the country’s systemically important banks.

Capital / Liquidity

Malaysia to Make Specialist Compliance, Risk Management Qualifications Compulsory

By Editors | 29/03/2018

BNM to introduce code of conduct for senior FI personnel, regulatory standards to govern banks’ increased outsourcing of functions.

Capital / Liquidity

Vietnam Establishes Early Intervention Mechanism for Ailing Banks

By Editors | 26/03/2018

New mechanism provides guidelines for SBV directors to take action as a credit institution profile weakens to contain risk.

Capital / Liquidity

A Quarter of Loans at Bangladesh State Banks Non Performing

By Garima Chitkara | 26/03/2018

Current and former regulators have voiced concern over the the accumulation of bad loans in the banking sector; value of bad loans has trebled in the past six years.

Capital / Liquidity

Decline of the House of Basel

By Peter Guy | 26/03/2018

The Basel regime has shown itself to be incomplete and not universally applicable. With the Trump administration seeking to allow a return to proprietary trading, profound implications for global banks’ risk management are only just beginning to surface.