FinMin urges RBI to relax capital adequacy norms for banks

17 Jan 2013 Evaluate

In line with the recommendations made earlier this month by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the finance ministry has asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ease capital adequacy norms for banks. RBI has already delayed the implementation of Basel III, the global capital norms for banks, by three months to April 1.

The deadline for the full implementation of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) for banks has been extended till 2019, which were to kick in from 2015. Earlier in January, oversight panel Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), which includes representation from India, of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision decided to relax the LCR regulations.

LCR, a major component of the Basel III banking norms, aims to make sure that a bank has an adequate stock of unencumbered high quality liquid assets to meet liquidity needs for a month's stress scenario. The LCR would be introduced as planned on January 1, 2015, however the minimum requirement would be 60%. The same would be increased by 10 percentage points in the subsequent years to reach 100% on January 1, 2019.

As per the panel GHOS, this graduated approach is planned to ensure that the LCR can be introduced without disruption to the orderly strengthening of banking systems or the ongoing financing of economic activity. Besides this, the panel approved amendments to LCR rules, including changes to the definition of high quality liquid assets and net cash outflows.

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