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THE INVESTOR
March 29, 2024

Finance

Banks’ Q1 capital ratio down on tighter rules

  • PUBLISHED :June 03, 2019 - 14:00
  • UPDATED :June 03, 2019 - 14:00
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Banks in South Korea saw their financial health deteriorate slightly in the first quarter of this year as tighter credit-risk rules prompted them to set aside more capital for derivatives, data showed on June 3.

Under the Basel Committee’s so-called standardized approach for measuring counterparty credit risk, banks in Korea are required to tighten their measures for calculating derivatives exposures and set aside more capital against them.
 


The average capital adequacy ratio of 19 commercial and state-run banks stood at 15.4 percent as of the end of March, down 0.01 percentage point from the previous quarter, according to the data from the Financial Supervisory Service.

A key barometer of financial soundness, the ratio measures the proportion of a bank’s capital to its risk-weighted credit. The Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlements, an international organization of central banks, requires lenders to maintain a ratio of 8 percent or higher.

Citibank Korea posted the highest capital ratio at 18.93 percent.

The capital adequacy ratio of two internet-only banks – K bank and Kakao Bank -- stood at 12.48 percent and 13.41 percent, respectively.

By Ram Garikipati and newswires (ram@heraldcorp.com)

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