Reform Index 91. Ensuring the sustainability of banks. New requirements of the NBU

Reform Index is +0.4 points for the period from August 6 – August 19, 2018. The main events of the round are new requirements to ensure the stability of banks by the results of stress testing.

The major event of the release

New requirements for ensuring the sustability of banks, +2 points

Stress tests are conducted to assess banks’ ability to withstand downturns in financial market.

The NBU recommends to take into account the following factors to avoid risk:

• economic stability (economic downturn, radical change in the economic development vector, defaults of first-class borrowing companies, etc.);
• significant fluctuations of the exchange rate of the national currency;
• openness and accessibility of the interbank market;
• the level of political and international stability;
• stability of financial markets, including opportunity to counteract speculative attacks; changes in interest rates, e.g. LIBOR, discount rates, etc .;
• possibility of property depreciation provided for usage by means of lending bank operations (in particular, through falling prices in the real estate market, the crisis of certain sectors of the economy, etc.);
• volatility of prices for energy resources;
• microeconomic indicators: bank has the ability to access external sources of liquidity maintenance; bank’s competitive position (determined by SWOT analysis as a generalized assessment).

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