The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has published final Basel III guidelines requiring banks to meet strict liquidity and capital ...

The earlier provision of the bill pegged the minimum capital requirement for non-life insurance businesses at N25 billion, life assurance businesses at N15 billion, and reinsurance businesses at ...

Under Basel II, the minimum capital requirement of 8 percent of risk-weighted assets does not change, but risk weights are assigned based either on ratings provided by qualified external agencies or ...

Barr said he was sympathetic to the need to change the testing regime given legal imperatives, but said he would rather make stress testing non-binding and raise minimum capital requirements while ...

Minimum capital requirements for big banks are currently 13.5 per cent and for smaller banks 11.5 per cent. They are scheduled to rise to 18 per cent and 16 per cent respectively by 2028.

The decision to impose such regulation is complex and involves important trade-offs. For instance, increasing minimum capital requirements on banks may help reduce losses during bank failures, but it ...

Minimum capital requirements for big banks are currently 13.5% and for smaller banks 11.5%. They are scheduled to rise to 18% and 16% respectively by 2028. The RBNZ said banks are well advanced in ...