What is Sound Management of Operational Risk?
“Sound Management of Operational Risk” is a collection of principles that has been developed over the years by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for the purpose of guiding firms in the financial services industry and their regulators to establish sound practices for the management of Operational Risk. These principles cover three main areas: (i)…
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How operational risk is measured?
Basel Committee on banking supervision has adopted a common industry definition of operational risk. 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…
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What is Leverage Ratio of assets to capital?
Assume, a bank keeps all the deposits collected from the customers in its vaults. It is an ideal situation to a bank that it has large quantity of liquid capital to return the money back to the depositors as and when they demand it. However, keeping customer’s deposits without using doesn’t earn any money to…
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What is Basel III, why it is important?
The Basel III rule introduced several measures to strengthen the capital requirement of banks across the globe and presented more capital buffers to supplement the risk-based minimum capital requirements. This is to ensure that adequate funding is maintained in case there are other severe banking crises.The Reserve Bank of India introduced Basel III norms in…
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Risk-Weighted Assets and Risk weight table for different categories of Assets explained
(This post provides the risk weight table for on balance sheet and off-balance sheet category of assets) Updated on November 17: RBI increases risk weights on consumer credit exposure of banks, NBFCs to 125% from 100%. Measures announced to contain the risk emanating from a sharp rise in unsecured loans – mostly personal loans and…
What is FCTR or Foreign currency translation reserve?
In terms of Accounting Standard (AS) 11 FCTR or foreign currency translation reserve arises due to the translation of financial statements of bank’s foreign operations. FCTR is reckoned at a discount of 25% for the purpose of determining bank’s regulatory capital. The above treatment is subject to a condition that the FCTR are shown as…
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