Uncertain liquidity ratios
Like their counterparts elsewhere, South African banks are bracing themselves for a round of changes to Basel II rules. But it is the implications for liquidity and not capital that most concern market participants.
It's been a whirlwind 12 months for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Faced with the wreckage of the financial crisis, regulators published a raft of proposals last December designed to strengthen global capital and liquidity regulations. Across most of the globe, reaction to these changes has focused on the capital implications. In South Africa, though, discord has centred on measures designed to combat liquidity mismatches, with bankers claiming the proposals will be too hard on the
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