Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
P. Soumya
Faculty, IIBF
Basel I Accord
1980’s faced the Latin American Debt crisis
Capital ratios of main international banks deteriorated
Strengthen capital to halt capital erosion
Remove inequality arising from differences in national capital requirements
Arrived at the weighted approach for both on and off banks’ balance sheets
Capital measurement system was published in December 1987
Approved by G-10 governors and released to banks in July 1988
April 1996 – introduced market risk
Basel I – Risk Weights
Basel II
Limitations of Basel I
Limited differentiation of credit risk
No recognition of term structure of credit risk
Simplified calculation of multi-country counterparty risk
Non-recognition of portfolio diversification effects
Static measure of default risk
Basel II
Designed to
Improve the way regulatory capital requirements reflect the underlying risks
Basel II - approach
Need for Basel III
Fundamental need to strengthen Basel II framework
High leveraging in off balance sheet items/ over the counter (OTC) (not
through exchange )
SBI (Aug 2015), ICICI Bank (Aug 2016) & HDFC bank (Sep 2017)
Capital Liquidity
Liquidity Coverage
Tier 1 (CET1 + AT1)
Ratio (LCR)
Countercyclical Capital
Conservation Buffer (CCCB)
Tier 1 vs Tier 2
Intangible assets
COMPONENTS
Perpetual Non Cumulative Preference Shares (PNCPS)
COMPONENTS
General provisions & loss reserves
Provisions on standard assets , floating provisions
Incremental provisions in respect of unhedged forex exposures
Provision for country exposure
Investment reserve account
Excess provision on sale of NPA accounts
Debt capital instrument issued by banks
Countercylical Capital Conservation Buffer
Tier 2 Capital
Perpetual cumulative preference shares (PCPS)
Credit to GDP Gap – difference between Credit to GDP ratio and its long
term trends.
Level 2 comprises of
2A Assets – claims guaranteed by sovereigns; Corporate Bonds & Commercial
Papers not issued by Banks/PDs/Fis
2B Assets – Not more than 15% of the total stock of HQLA; haircut of 50% to
be applied on the market value of each Level 2B stock held; Marketable
securities; Common Equity Shares
Net Stable Funding Ratio
Objective to deter reliance on short term means of finance
Long term assets acquired through stable and risk less liabilities
Non-risk based ratio as figures are from the balance sheet itself
(banking book)