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India needs to find own path to meet comprehensive Basel-III norms: Y V Reddy

29 Jun 2017 Evaluate

The former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Y V Reddy has said that India needs to find its own way to attain capital adequacy ratio (CAR) for public sector banks (PSBs) as required by the comprehensive Basel-III norms. He said that these banking norms are sort of guidelines in international standards. He also said that in principle they want to go towards the Basel III banking norms and added that the pace of implementation is left to each country.

Reddy said ‘I think it is appropriate that India decided its own path to the comprehensive basel III norms. So I would not consider it as an unwelcome thing, if it is being done wisely, I am sure.’ The Basel-III norms have been implemented in a phased manner by the Reserve Bank of India since April 1, 2013. They are to be fully implemented as on March 31, 2019. As per the norms, banks need to maintain a minimum common equity ratio of 8 percent and total capital ratio of 11.5 percent by March 2019.

Recently, the Union Finance Ministry, incidentally, has made a case for extending the RBI’s deadline for applying Basel III banking norms in a view of higher capital requirement to deal with bad loans which have reached deplorable levels. In a recent meeting with the RBI, senior officials from the Finance Ministry pitched for deferring the implementation of Basel III capital regulations beyond March 2019, and said that it will help banks meet the capital needs and increase credit flow to productive sectors along with balance sheet clean-up.

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