As per ratings agency Standard & Poor's, Indian and Chinese banks may find it difficult to raise funds to meet the higher capital requirements under Basel III norms due to their rising bad assets, but the banks from the Asia-Pacific region are better placed to meet the new norms.
S&P’s expect banks in high-growth systems such as India and China to face challenges in maintaining or raising capital ratios to keep pace with growth in risk assets’. Further, it estimated that capital shortfall of major Indian and Chinese banks could reach about $100 billion by 2019.
Meanwhile, Asia Pacific banks were better placed than their peers elsewhere and are poised to take the global lead in implementing Basel III in 2013, S&P added. Further it stated that most countries in the Asia-Pacific region have published their final set of Basel III capital reform regulations effective from January 2013 and these banks will adopt the new capital regulations ahead of their global peers.
Further, as per the rating agency, the US has also delayed the implementation and timetable of the Basel-III capital reforms, while a final draft is under discussion in the European Union. Moreover, last month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also delayed the starting date for implementation of the Basel III norms to April 2013. Back on January 16, the finance ministry has also asked the RBI to ease capital adequacy norms for Indian banks.
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