The Reserve Bank of India issued draft guidelines to provide a harmonised prudential framework for financing projects in Infrastructure, Non-Infrastructure, and Commercial Real Estate sectors by regulated entities (REs). In the backdrop of a review of the extant instructions and analysis of the risks inherent in such financing, the Central Bank prescribed norms for restructuring…
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday notified that the revised definition of trading book for capital adequacy in terms of MD on investments dated September 12, 2023. As per the guidelines, the investment portfolio would be categorized into 3 categories viz. Held to maturity (HTM), Available for sale (AFS), and Fair Value through Profit and Loss…
Mutual Fund Schemes are not guaranteed or assured return products. Remember, past performance does not guarantee the future performance of any Mutual Fund Scheme. Different mutual fund categories are exposed to different kinds of risks depending on their investment objective and style. The level of risk associated with the principal amount invested in a mutual…
Whenever you open a scheme-related document, one of the first things you will see is a semicircle with an arrow pointing towards the ‘Risk’ levels associated with that fund. In 2015, SEBI introduced the ‘Riskometer’ as a benchmark of risk in the given scheme. Before that, fund houses would colour code risk in blue, yellow,…
A credit default swap (CDS) is a contract between two parties in which one party purchases protection from another party against losses from the default of a borrower for a defined time. The protection buyer makes periodic payments (premium) to the protection seller until the maturity of the contract or the credit event, whichever is…
The business of banking is confronted with multiple numbers of risks viz. credit risk, liquidity risk, operational risk, reputation risk, legal risk, market risk, strategic risk, country risk, counter-party risk, contractual risk, Access risk, systemic risk, and so on. Nevertheless, like in any other business risk-taking in banking is also inevitable as it also presents…
The Reserve Bank of India has today (June 26, 2023) issued the Master Direction on Minimum Capital Requirements for Operational Risk. The Central Bank said that the circular is issued after appropriately considering the feedback received from stakeholders. According to the Directions require all specified Commercial Banks (excluding Local Area Banks, Payments Banks, Regional Rural…
In accounting parlance, a going concern is a business that is assumed to be able to meet its financial obligations when they become due. In the case of going concern, statutory auditors do not foresee the threat of liquidation for the foreseeable future, which is usually regarded as at least the next 12 months or…
Some banks have introduced innovative Housing Loan Schemes in association with developers/builders. The normal process of these schemes, is upfront disbursal of sanctioned individual housing loans to the builders without linking the disbursals to various stages of construction of the housing project, Interest/EMI on the housing loan availed of by the individual borrower being serviced…
Interest rate risk is the potential for investment losses that can be prompted by a move upward in the prevailing rates for new debt instruments. Interest rate changes can affect many investments, but it impacts the value of bonds and other fixed-income securities most directly. As interest rates rise bond prices fall, and vice versa.…