Wednesday, June 11, 2014

RBI introduces liquidity ratios for banks

............“The LCR would be binding on banks from January 1, 2015; with a view to provide a transition time for banks, the LCR requirement would be minimum 60 per cent for the calendar year 2015, i.e. with effect from January 1, 2015 and rise in equal steps to reach 100 per cent on  January 1, 2019,” RBI said in a statement on Monday. Banks, however, has been asked to achieve a higher ratio than the minimum prescribed above as an effort towards better liquidity risk management. The move from the Indian banking regulator comes after the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposed certain reforms to strengthen capital and liquidity regulations in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008.............

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