CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

Indonesia: OJK Relaxes Capital, Liquidity Requirements for Banks

By Editors | 01/06/2020

The OJK has removed the capital conservation buffer requirement, lowered the LCR and NSFR requirements to 80%, and deferred Basel III implementation.

Capital / Liquidity

CBIRC Eases Restrictions on Bank Bond Investment by Insurers

By Editors | 31/05/2020

The CBIRC is scrapping requirements that only allowed insurers to invest in bank bonds of large issuers based on their asset size, capital adequacy and credit rating.

Capital / Liquidity

Large Enterprise Loans Can Count Towards Reserve Compliance: BSP

By Editors | 30/05/2020

The BSP said the revised measures are intended to provide credit and help ease the financial burden of firms heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Capital / Liquidity

Bank Resilience to be Tested in the Coming Months: RBNZ

By Editors | 29/05/2020

Under the RBNZ’s ‘very severe’ stress test scenario, banks would fall below minimum regulatory capital, requiring “significant recovery responses” to avoid resolution options.

Capital / Liquidity

Using Capital Buffers Not As Easy As Hoped: APRA Chair

By Editors | 28/05/2020

Market expectations of bank capital levels and the knowledge that capital will eventually need to be rebuilt make it difficult for banks to dip into their buffers.

Capital / Liquidity

Taiwan Defers Basel III, Eases Provisioning Norms

By Editors | 28/05/2020

The FSC has also clarified its expectations on ECL estimates under IFRS 9 and reiterated its relaxation of the D-SIB surcharge requirement.

Capital / Liquidity

Japanese FIs to Be Granted Easier Access to State Aid

By Editors | 27/05/2020

Applicant financial institutions will no longer have to set profit targets as a condition for receiving state aid, and the 15-year repayment deadline will be scrapped.

Capital / Liquidity

Philippines Approves ‘Bad Bank’ Bill Amid Rising NPLs

By Editors | 27/05/2020

The ‘Financial Institutions Strategic Transfer Act’ allows the creation of asset management companies to buy up non-performing assets from financial institutions.

Capital / Liquidity

FSS Korea Directs Banks to Defer Business Expansion

By Editors | 27/05/2020

FSS governor Yoon Suk-heun said financial firms should brace for a “prolonged fallout of Covid-19” and focus on boosting internal reserves and loss absorbency capacity.