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5. Capital Adequacy and ICAAP

No: 291000000581 Date(g): 22/9/2008 | Date(h): 23/9/1429 Status: Modified

This section should include the following:

Disclosure of various types of Capital

An ICAAP establishes a framework for economic, legal, regulatory and accounting capital purposes and helps identify planned sources of capital to meet these needs. Consequently, this section should provide a distinction from the bank's perspective of the following capital classification indicating their purpose, minimum requirements and other attributes. 
 
 1.Regulatory Capital
 
 2.Accounting Capital
 
 3.Legal Capital
 
 4.Economic Capital (if relevant)
 
Additionally, a bank will need to describe its position with respect to its definition, assimilation and usage within the bank's risk and performance assessment framework. 
 
Consequently, this section should elaborate on the bank's view of the amount of capital it requires to meet its minimum regulatory needs and disclosure requirements under International Accounting Standards, or whether what is being presented is the amount of capital that a bank believes it needs to meet its strategic business objectives, external ratings, and a support for a dividend policy from a shareholders perspective, etc. For example, whether the capital required is based on a particular desired credit rating or includes buffers for strategic purposes or to minimize the charge for breaching regulatory requirements. Where economic capital models are used this would include the time horizon, economic description, scenario analyses, etc. including a description of how the severity of scenarios have been chosen. 
 

Timing of the ICAAP

Generally, the ICAAP is prepared on an annual basis as at the end of each calendar year, i.e. 31 December 2008 (and is due in SAMA as at 31 January of the following year). However, should there be any variation to this timing, additional details will need to be provided. This will include the reasons for the effective date of the ICAAP. Other information to be provided will also include an analysis and consideration for any events between the effective date and the date of submission which could materially impact the ICAAP and the rationale for the time period over which ICAAP has been assessed.

Risk Covered in the ICAAP

An identification and appropriate description of the major risks faced in each of the following categories: 
 
Credit Risk (Additional to Pillar 1)
 
Market Risk (Additional to Pillar 1)
 
Operational Risk (Additional to Pillar 1)
 
Liquidity Risk
 
Concentration Risk
 
Securitization Risk
 
Strategic Risk
 
Interest Rate Risk
 

SAMA recognizes banks’ internal systems as the principal tool for the measurement of interest rate risk in the banking book and the supervisory response. To facilitate SAMA’s monitoring of interest rate risk exposures across institutions, banks would have to provide the results of their internal measurement systems, expressed in terms of economic value relative to capital, using a standardized interest rate shock. 

 

Further to the above, as per SAMA circular dated 10 November 2011, banks need to provide the following details:

  1. Provisions: The Bank should enhance the section on this topic by providing the following end of year information, for the past five years (including the current year).
  • Specific, general and total provisions
  • Provision expense charged to the income statement (net of recoveries)
  • Default rates by major portfolios (Retail, Credit Card, Corporate, SME's, etc.)
  • Total Non-performing Loans
  • Coverage Ratio

    2. Concentration Risk: The Banks should under the section on concentration risk include the following information for the past 3 years (including the current year).

  • On and Off Balance Sheet Credit exposure to top ten customers as a percentage of total on and off balance sheet credit.
  • On and Off Balance Sheet Credit exposure to top ten customers as a percentage of Bank's regulatory capital.
  • Number of loans extended to connected parties and the total value of such loans as a percentage of total credit.
  • Total value of loans to connected parties as a percentage of total regulatory capital.
  • The banks could add comments on the concentration risk and how it affects their assessment of additional capital requirements, if any.

3. Liquidity Risk: The Banks should provide the following information as at the end of year.

  • Liquidity Coverage Ratio
  • Net Stable Funding Ratio
  • In addition, the following information should be provided for the past three years (as at end of the year):
  • Deposits from top (10) ten customer as a percentage of total customer deposits.
  • Deposits from Wholesale markets (interbank, others) as a percentage of total liabilities.

4. Off Balance Sheet Activities: The following year-end information on Derivatives Activity should be provided for past 3 years with breakdown in Saudi Riyal, USD and other currencies.

  • Interest rate Derivatives
  • FX Derivatives

5.Capital Leverage Ratio: Banks should include information on the following:

  • Basle Capital Leverage Ratio (current year)
  • Legal Leverage Ratio under the Banking Control Law (for past 3 years)

     
(Refer to Paragraph 763 of International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards – June 2006
 
Macro Economic and Business Cycle Risk
 
Reputational Risk
 
Global Risk
 
Any other Risks identified
 
An explanation of how each of the risk has been identified, assessed, measured and the methodology and or models currently or to be employed in the future, and the quantitative results of that assessment;
 
where relevant, a comparison of that assessment with the results of the pillar 1 calculations;
 
a clear articulation of the bank's risk appetite by risk category; and
 
where relevant, an explanation of method used to mitigate these risks.