CAPITAL / LIQUIDITY

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Finalises Yes Bank Rescue Plan, Including Funding Lines

By Editors | 12/03/2020

State Bank of India and other banks will invest about 500 billion rupees in Yes Bank shares and CDs. AT1 bondholders will recover about 20% of their investment.

Capital / Liquidity

BSP to Adopt New Supervisory Assessment Framework From July

By Editors | 11/03/2020

The new SAFr – said to be more forward-looking compared to CAMELS – uses a four-point rating scale, focusing on FIs business models and compliance systems’ ability to mitigate risk.

Capital / Liquidity

25 Years Since Barings Collapse: What Has Changed?

By Peter Guy | 09/03/2020

Peter Guy explores whether regulation, compliance and financial technology have improved risk management in the 25 years since Barings Bank’s spectacular crash.

Capital / Liquidity

UPDATED – RBI Seizes Control of Troubled Lender Yes Bank

By Editors | 06/03/2020

The RBI says it had “no alternative” to protect the interests of the public and depositors, given the absence of a credible revival plan. A draft plan for Yes Bank’s reconstruction is open for comment.

Big Picture

Singapore Banks Among Most Vulnerable to Covid-19 Impacts: Fitch

By Editors | 04/03/2020

While Singaporean banks have sufficient loss-absorption buffers to withstand pressure, the impact will depend on the extent and duration of the outbreak.

Capital / Liquidity

CBIRC Instructs Banks to Defer Loan Repayments for Small Businesses

By Editors | 02/03/2020

The move follows all-time lows in China’s manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMI figures, prompting analysts to cut their first quarter GDP growth forecasts to minus 6%.

Capital / Liquidity

Philippine Banks to Get Covid-19 Regulatory Relief

By Editors | 01/03/2020

The relief measures may include grace periods for rediscounting loans, staggered booking of credit losses, non-imposition of penalties for reserve deficiencies, and non-recognition of loan defaults.

Capital / Liquidity

BIS Seeks Integration of Climate Risk in Prudential Framework

By Manesh Samtani | 01/03/2020

At a recent BIS meeting, participants discussed how existing risk management requirements for banks and insurers could be adjusted to capture climate risk exposures.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS Clarifies Capital Treatment of Amended LIBOR Contracts

By Editors | 28/02/2020

Capital instruments amended solely to implement benchmark reforms will not be treated as new instruments for the purpose of assessing their eligibility as Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruments.