VituVingiSana wrote:alotoftalk wrote:VituVingiSana wrote:
Is a Rights Issue imminent for KCB in 2018?
It depends on how big their exposure is. There is a transitional phasing-in period proposed by Basel(and which I expect CBK to include in their implementation guidance) of spreading the effect within five years for the day one effect on core tier 1 capital.
So KCB may not have sufficient Tier 1 Capital to cover their ratios if IFRS 9 was implemented in full on 1st Jan 2018?
Where does it say that there is a 5-year "transitional phase-in" period? Aspects of the IFRS 9 could have been "early adopted" as done by DTB.
Because of the expected credit losses concept, it's quite possible that the impact may thin out their tier 1 capital.
There are two aspects to the IFRS 9 implementation. The accounting and the regulatory. Good examples, tier one capital is not an accounting but regulatory aspect. Another example, the definition of a loan in default is also a regulatory aspect. Regulatory aspects are usually standardized for all banks based on concepts proposed by Basel and adopted by the regulator, in this case, CBK.
Read more (start at pg. 27) about the regulatory transitional aspects here:
https://www.esrb.europa...._stab_imp_IFRS_9.en.pdf
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