• CM-2.1 CM-2.1 Overview

    • CM-2.1.1

      The CBB’s directives on large exposures for licensees in Bahrain are issued as part of the CBB’s measures to encourage licensees to mitigate risk concentrations and to design the licensees’ large exposure framework so that the maximum possible loss the licensee could incur, if a single counterparty or group of connected counterparties were to suddenly fail, would not endanger the licensee’s survival as a going concern.

      Added: June 2022

    • CM-2.1.2

      The contents of this Chapter apply in full to all Bahraini Islamic bank licensees on a consolidated basis.

      Added: June 2022

    • CM-2.1.3

      The application of the large exposures framework at the consolidated level implies that the licensee must consider all exposures to third parties across the relevant regulatory consolidation group and compare the aggregate of those exposures with the group’s consolidated total capital.

      Added: June 2022

    • CM-2.1.4

      Bahraini Islamic bank licensees must report large exposures through the PIRI forms (see Module CA).

      Added: June 2022