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What are Funding Volatility Ratio and Market Liability Ratio?

The volatility ratio (VR) is a statistical metric that measures the price changes of a security or market index over a period of time. It’s a technical analysis tool that helps investors and traders. In banking parlance, volatile liabilities are ‘hot’ or ‘unstable’ funds that can disappear from bank’s balance sheet overnight. Demand deposits are…

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What are CASA deposits and Bulk deposits?

CASA stands for Current Account and Savings Account in banking parlance. Besides in India, the term CASA is popularly is used in West Asia and South-east Asia countries. The difference between the average yield of interest obtained from loans and the average rate of interest paid for deposits and other such funds (or the cost…

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What are Interest Capitalization and compounding frequency?

When borrowers unable to pay interest on time, it will add to principal amount of the borrower’s loan account at regular frequency. In the other words Capitalization frequency is the addition of unpaid interest to the principal balance of your loan. That means it is added to borrower’s Current Principal and interest will now be…

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What is the difference between Cheating and Fraud?

The difference between fraud and cheating lies in their variety. Cheating is described under Section 415 of IPC. Section 415 states that “Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any proper­ty to any person, or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces…

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What is SA-CCR: Standardised Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk ?

The standardized approach for counterparty credit risk (SA-CCR) is a new computational method for exposure at default (EAD) under the Basel capital adequacy framework.  This approach replaces the Current Exposure Method (CEM), used by banks in India, for measuring exposure for counterparty credit risk arising from derivative transactions, with effect from April 1, 2018. The…

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