Interest rate risk definition and impact on banking book
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.…
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Regulatory Basel III Framework on Liquidity Standards for reckoning Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR)
RBI on Monday July 21, 2025 through notification announced that “it has been decided to permit banks to reckon Government securities as Level 1 HQLA* under FALLCR** within the mandatory SLR requirement up to 16 percent of their NDTL, under Basel III Framework on Liquidity Standards. Consequently, the total HQLA carve-out from the mandatory SLR,…
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RBI issues M D on Minimum Capital Requirements for Operational Risk
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…
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Do you know these 24 types of risks faced by banks?
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…
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Challenges in Implementing FinTech Solutions in Retail banking and Trade Finance
The implementation of financial technology (FinTech) solutions offers transformative potential for the global financial services sector, particularly in the domain of retail banking and trade finance. However, despite rapid adoption and innovation, several economic, regulatory, technical, and security-related challenges continue to impede the effective integration and scaling of FinTech across industries and jurisdictions. 1. Economic…
A Sample Process of International Trade Using Blockchain Technology
Introduction: What Is Blockchain? Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed ledger system that records transactions in a secure, transparent, and immutable manner. Imagine it as a digital ledger, where each “page” represents a block of verified transactions, and every page is sequentially linked—forming a chain. Any attempt to alter a block would disrupt the entire chain,…
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