What is additional Tier-1 capital AT 1?
Additional Tier Capital (also known as AT1 bonds) is a type of unsecured, perpetual bonds issued predominantly by banks to raise additional Tier 1 capital without any maturity date (perpetual), but they have a call option. These bonds are issued by banks to shore up their core capital base to meet the Basel-III norms. Features…
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Stress Testing in banks: the objective and new challenges
A bank stress test is an exercise conducted under hypothetical scenarios designed to determine whether the bank has enough capital to withstand a negative economic shock. Most risk management models, including stress tests, use historical statistical relationships to assess risk. They assume that risk is driven by a known and constant statistical process, ie they…
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RBI tells banks to put in place a risk-based internal audit (RBIA) system
RBI on Friday (08.01.2021) said that all commercial banks (including small finance banks, payments banks, and 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…
Read article Review/renewal of credit facilities should be brought under the scope of concurrent/internal audit/internal control mechanism: RBI
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…
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Operational Risk Management measure: Facility of Price / Yield range setting in e-Kuber
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…
Banks’ exposures to a single NBFC under Large Exposure Framework (revised)
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…
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