CA-B CA-B General guidance and best practice
CA-B.1 CA-B.1 Introduction
CA-B.1.1
This chapter provides general guidance on
Capital adequacy requirements, unless otherwise stated.CA-B.1.2
It sets best practice standards and should generally be applied by all licensees to their activities.
CA-B.2 CA-B.2 Guidance provided by other international bodies
Basel Committee: The management of banks' off balance sheet exposures — a supervisory perspective
CA-B.2.1
In March 1986, the
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a paper titled "The management of banks' off-balance-sheet exposures — a supervisory perspective" (see www.bis.org/publ/bcbsc134.pdf).CA-B.2.2
This paper examines off balance sheet risks from three angles — market/position risk, credit risk and operational/control risk. Part III of this paper examines credit risk (including control of large exposures, settlement risk and country risk), with particular emphasis given to the assessment of the relative risks of the different types of off balance sheet activity.
CA-B.3 CA-B.3 Enforceability
CA-B.3.1
These guidance should not be taken as legally binding requirements, unless otherwise embodied in Bahrain law or by regulation.
CA-B.3.2
It should be noted that the provisions in this chapter are to be taken as guidance, unless otherwise stated, supplementing the Regulations set out in this module.
