Banking Regulations

Discussion around current trends in regulations for banks globally

Breana Patel CEO | Thought leader in Bank Risk & Regulations at Bonova Advisory | Risk &Regulatory Advisory

Best Practices in Internal Capital Adequacy Planning

Best Practices in Managing Internal Capital AdequacyGuaranteeing a Solid Base of Capitalization Cooked down to its essence, the convulsion that overtook the international banking system in 2008 came down to institutions lacking adequate capitalization. The failure of Lehman Brothers — due to its holdings in the subprime market not being sufficientl...

30 April 2018 /regulation /wholesale

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GDPR in Context: The 6 Legal Bases for Processing

The first principle of data protection requires that all personal data be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently. A legal (or lawful) basis for processing must be satisfied before an organization can process any personal data. GDPR outlines six scenarios in which data processing is legally permitted. Unless the organization can show that the ...

24 April 2018 /regulation

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Bracing for Brexit

There are very few things we can be certain of in regard to Brexit, other than the fact that it won’t be concluded in 2018. It would be premature, though, to dismiss Brexit as topic solely for the policy makers sitting in their ivory tower far removed from the technology and operations that keep financial markets running smoothly on a daily basis....

27 March 2018 /regulation

Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys

Corporate Credit Appraisals and Decision making

Corporate Loans occupy significant size in the asset portfolio of large Banks. Most of the Banks have a well-defined corporate credit department comprising of relationship managers, credit appraisal officers, risk officers, approvers and Department heads. Corporate Loans not only generates interest and fee based income but also build the asset sid...

22 March 2018 /regulation

Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys

Regulations for Non Performing Assets- How effective is the implementation ?

Lending is a major activity for major Banks and lending for capital investments, infrastructure, finances in Government sector and industries, heavy machineries contributes to the development of economy and also providing long term assured interest/fee based income to the Bank. Such corporate loans occupy a significant asset portfolio in many larg...

19 March 2018 /regulation

Brendan Jones CCO - Co-Founder at Konsentus Ltd

The World of Open Banking

Open banking is not just for Europe, although many of us sitting in Europe probably think it is. Many other markets around the world have been noticing what Europe is up to and other countries and regions are also looking to adopt similar principles with the ultimate view of delivering better customer financial outcomes. USA Stakeholders in the ...

12 March 2018 /payments

Brendan Jones CCO - Co-Founder at Konsentus Ltd

EU Open Banking is not just for banks

Or maybe the headline should really read EU PSD2, open access APIs are not just for banks and the first thing we all need to be clear on is that UK open banking, that has been launched with the CAM9, is not the same as PSD2 open access APIs. So who does PSD2 open access APIs apply to? Well PSD2 uses the term ‘Transactional Account’ and in the UK t...

12 March 2018 /payments

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Conduct Risk is now an epidemic and is appearing in far too many places. It is time to deal with it.

In its simplest form, conduct risk is when an organisation’s stakeholder’s behaviour leads to unwanted behaviour or crimes, either detected or not, and detrimentally damages an organisation’s or sector’s reputation, negatively impacting market stability and potentially damaging innocent individuals. Stakeholders include employees, customers, suppl...

18 February 2018 /regulation

Ajay Katara Risk Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

TRIMing the RWA’s

Ensuring comparability among Banks is coming out as a key theme from the BIS (Banks for international settlement) .Many new proposed guidelines on Pillar III Disclosures, Standardized approach for credit risk etc. are focusing on bringing about changes in methodologies, calculations and reporting disclosures to achieve the comparability goal. Th

17 February 2018 /regulation

Vaibhav Grover Senior Director at Sutherland

Responsible Lending Guidelines- Threat or Opportunity for Banks?

What is 'responsible lending' all about? In Australia, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued regulatory guidelines that makes it mandatory for the lenders to assess and make sure that a credit facility extended to a customer is 'not unsuitable' for them and customer is able to 'service' the credit extended by the lende...

07 February 2018 /regulation /retail