Total volume of capital of Azerbaijan’s banking sector amounted to almost 2.76 billion manats in January-May, according to a banking sector outlook of the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FIMSA). Total capital volume of Azerbaijani banks has increased by 44.5% since early 2017. By late May, the sector’s total assets amounted to 30.1 billion manats as…
The International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) has received enough votes from creditors to start the process of restructuring its foreign liabilities, Bloomberg reported, referring to the bank’s statement. Creditors holding more than 87% of the debt have voted in favor of the restructuring process, according to the report. Voting on the plan of voluntary restructuring…
Stakeholders of Azerbaijan’s DemirBank decided to increase the bank’s total capital, the bank said in a message. The capital will be increased by transforming the bank’s external liabilities worth $105 million into Tier 1 capital, according to the message. The bank’s recapitalization plan approved by the stakeholders has already been submitted to the Financial Market…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has become a member of the Basel Consultative Group (BCG), the outreach arm of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS), the NBU has reported on its website. “The BCG aims at attracting supervision officials of the countries which are not committee members to the discussion of new proposals…
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a decree on reorganization of certain banks in the country, the Turkmen government said in a message. At a government meeting, the Turkmen president gave concrete instructions to the management of the country’s Central Bank. Also, a decree was signed on the transfer of rights and obligations on the…
The Central Bank of Uzbekistan has set new standards for managing current and instant liquidity of commercial banks, said the message posted on the bank’s website. The current liquidity ratio defined as the ratio of the amount of current assets (liquid assets and bank’s investments with a payment period of up to 30 calendar days,…
The Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) considers it sufficient to raise the minimum charter capital of banks to UAH 200 million, according to the council’s report posted on the central bank’s website. “Today’s requirements to the size of the banks’ charter capital in the amount of UAH 200 million from July 11…