Securitisation of stressed assets: RBI releases paper on regulatory purview

As per the current guidelines, Securitisation is allowed only in the case of standard assets while lenders have to largely rely on Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) for bad assets. Based on market feedback, stakeholder consultations, and the recommendations of the Task Force on Development of Secondary Market for Corporate Loans, RBI decided to introduce a…

New list of eligible credit rating agencies for the risk weighting banks’ claims for capital adequacy purposes

The Securities and Exchange Board of India canceled the Certificate of Registration (CoR) granted to Brickwork Ratings India Private Limited as a Credit Rating Agency (CRA), on October 6, 2022. In view of that RBI on October 9, 2022, advised Regulated Entities/ Market Participants that in respect of ratings/credit evaluations required in terms of any…

SBI, HDFC and ICICI bank continue to be named as banks that are ‘Too big to fail’

The Reserve Bank of India on Monday released the 2022 list of Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs). State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank continue to be domestic systematically important banks (D-SIBs), under the same bucketing structure as in the 2021 list of D-SIBs. Systemically Important Banks (SIBs) are perceived as banks…

RBI announces the migration of CPFIR (FRAUD) Reporting to DAKSH

Effective from January 01, 2023, the Banks and non-bank PPI entities shall commence reporting payment frauds in DAKSH. According to RBI circular, this reporting was earlier facilitated through Electronic Data Submission Portal (EDSP) and is being migrated to DAKSH through which scheduled commercial banks and non-bank prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers report payment frauds, to…