RBI on Friday (08.01.2021) said that all commercial banks (including small finance banks, payments bank, Local area banks) are required to put in place a risk-based internal audit (RBIA) system as part of their internal control framework that relies on a well-defined policy for internal audit, functional independence with sufficient standing and authority within the…
According to the sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the Department of Financial Services (DFS) has written a letter to Chairmen and heads of the banks on August 26, asking them to consider setting up of an IT system to collate such data, The IBC code amendment 2019 allows creditor to permits file insolvency…
On Risk Management System in Banks, Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) and Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) are required to put in place a board-approved credit policy, which, among other things, should prescribe the periodicity and methodology of review/renewal of credit facilities. As per RBI guidelines, regular and ad-hoc credit limits need to be reviewed/regularised not later…
The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002(SARFAESI Act 2002) provide for Enforcement of Security Interest for the realization of the dues without the intervention of Courts or Tribunals for recovery of NPAs by banks under various laws. In 2016 NBFC is included under the definition of the financial institution through…
Operational risk is defined as the risk of direct or indirect loss resulting from breakdowns in internal procedures, people, system and external events. Examples of operational risk are frauds, system failure, error in financial transactions, failure to discharge demand of contractual obligations due to insufficient funds, etc. RBI on Thursday (12-12-2019) notified that the bank…
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday (19.09.2019) revised the guidelines on concurrent audit system on the basis of the certain recommendations made by the expert committee headed by Y.H. Malegam. As per the new norms, the appointment of concurrent auditors will be appointed for a period of not more than three years instead of…
RBI with Circular dated September 12, 2019 notified that a bank’s exposure limit to a single NBFC (excluding gold loan companies) raised to 20% of Tier-I capital of the bank. The communication said that this is a step towards harmonisation of the counterparty exposure limit to single NBFC with that of the general limit. It…
The Reserve Bank of India today announced that on a review decided to reduce the risk weight for consumer credit, including personal loan excluding credit card receivables, to 100%. Under the extant instructions consumer credit, under the standardised approach for Credit Risk management attracts a higher risk weight of 125 per cent or higher, if…
The Reserve Bank Friday (June 28, 2019) relaxed the leverage ratio (LR) for banks from the quarter commencing October 1, 2019. The RBI communiqué said that the decision to relax the leverage ratio for banks is to help them boost their lending capacity. As per RBI notification the leverage ratio stands reduced to 4 per…
Banks, across the world, use different techniques to evaluate the probable risks through sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, break-even analysis etc. The most commonly used approach is the Risk Adjusted Return on Capital (RAROC). The banking as well as Non-banking financial institution and also large numbers of businesses are utilizing RAROC metric to calculate Return on…