In a remedial measure to the problems faced during the global financial crisis of 2008, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unveiled a new framework on Tuesday for identifying and dealing with large banks in the country, termed domestic systemically important banks (D-SIB). These banks basically would be too big to fail and allowing its failure would cause a crisis in the financial system.
Further, in its guidelines, RBI has averred that it would classify around four to six large banks as 'systemically important' by the RBI from August 2015, which will be subject to higher capital requirement and intense regulation. It further clarified that amount of additional capital requirements for D-SIBs would be based on a mix of quantitative calibration and consideration of country-specific factors.
Besides, RBI has underscored that it would create four sub-categories of D-SIB lenders, each with different requirements for additional common equity tier-1 capital requirements that would range from 0.2%-0.8% of risk-weighted assets.
This categorization is part of the Basel III norms on risk supervision, which were put in place after the global credit crisis of 2008. The crisis showed that few of large, highly interconnected banks, once in stress, could lead to a system-wide collapse and may need to be bailed out with public money. The framework issued for Indian banks is a revised version of the existing norms by Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
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