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Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Capital Adequacy Ratios of Philippine Universal and Commercial Banks - September 30, 2012

A bank's Capital Adequacy Ratio is a measure of a bank's capital and financial strength.  It is expressed as a percentage of a bank's risk weighted credit exposures.  It is also known as the "Capital to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio (CRAR).

The general formula is as follows:

CAR = (Tier 1 Capital + Tier 2 Capital)/Risk Weighted Assets

Tier 1 Capital

Tier 1 CAR is the ratio of a bank's core or equity capital to its total risk-weighted assets.  It measures financial strength from a regulator's point of view. Tier 1 Capital measures the bank's ability to absorb losses without a bank being required to cease trading.

The formula for Tier 1 Capital is as follows:

Tier 1 Capital = (Paid-up Capital + Statutory Reserves + Disclosed Free Reserves) - (Equity Investments in Subsidiary + Intangible Assets + Current & B/F losses)

Tier 1 CAR = Tier 1 Capital/Risk Weighted Assets

Tier 2 Capital

Tier 2 Capital is supplementary capital.  It measures the ability of a bank to absorb losses in the event of a winding up and so it provides a lesser degree of protection to depositors.

The formula for Tier 2 Capital is as follows:

 Tier 2 Capital = Undisclosed Reserves + General Loss Reserves + Hybrid Debt Capital Instruments and Subordinated Debts.

Risk Weighted Assets

Risk Weighted Assets are a bank's on balance sheet assets and off-balance sheet exposures, weighted according to risk.  Different classes of assets have different risk weightings.  For instance, cash on hand or a government bond has zero risk weighting and are subtracted from the total risk assets.  A loan would have a 100% risk weighthing - it would be counted towards the total risk assets of the bank.

More information about this can be found here.

Minimum Capital Requirements

International Guidelines

Basel III is the global requlatory standard on bank capital adequacy, stress testing, and market liquidity risk agreed upon by the members of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Under Basel III, the minimum Common Equity Tier 1 Capital Ratio is 4.5%, Tier 1 Capital Ratio is 6.0%, conservation buffer is 2.5%, and the minimum Total CAR is 8.0%.


For more information on Basel III, read this.

BSP Guidelines

The BSP issued new BASEL III Implementing Guidelines that will take effect on January 1, 2014. Under the new guidelines:


"Banks must now meet specific minimum thresholds for so-called Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital and Tier 1 (T1) capital in addition to the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR). These regulatory thresholds effectively move banks worldwide to rely more on core capital instruments like CET1 and T1 issues. This is in lieu of hybrid instruments which did not fare well in the latest global crisis as far as absorbing losses. The ability to absorb losses is central to Basel III.
The BSP maintained the minimum Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) at 10.0 percent. In addition to CAR, the new framework sets a CET1 ratio of at least 6.0 percent and the Tier I capital ratio is at a minimum of 7.5 percent. 
The new guidelines also introduce a capital conservation buffer of 2.5 percent which shall be made up of CET1 capital. In addition, banks which issued capital instruments from 2011 will be allowed to count these instruments as Basel III-eligible until end-2015

The Total CAR and Tier 1 CAR of Philippine Universal and Commercial Banks as of September 30, 2012 is as follows:


Philippine Commercial Banking System
Total CAR
September 30, 2012






Bank Total CAR
United Coconut Planters Bank 10.41
The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd 12.52
Bank of the Philippine Islands 13.67
HongKong & Shanghai Banking Corporation 13.69
Maybank Philippines Inc. 14.18
Standard Chartered Bank 14.84
Allied Banking Corporation 14.90
Asia United Bank Corporation 15.13
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company 15.34
China Banking Corporation 15.48
Philippine National Bank 16.23
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation 16.47
ANZ Banking Group Ltd 16.89
Security Bank Corporation 16.92
Philippine Veterans Bank 17.78
East West Banking Corporation 17.94
Banco De Oro Unibank 18.70
Union Bank of the Philippines 20.50
Deutsche Bank AG 20.60
Citibank N.A. 20.68
Philippine Trust Company 20.85
Land Bank of the Philippines 20.87
Bank of Commerce 22.21
Robinsons Bank Corporation 22.48
Development Bank of the Philippines 25.03
Philippine Bank of Communications 27.37
Korea Exchange Bank 27.90
Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. - Manila Branch 29.09
BDO Private Bank, Inc. 29.44
Chinatrust (Philippines) Commercial Banking Corporation 29.79
Internationale Nederlanden Groep BK 34.96
Bank of China Limited - Manila Branch 39.47
JP Morgan Chase National Bank Association 44.59
Mega International Commercial Bank Company Limited 46.00
Bank of America N.A. 47.21
Bangkok Bank Public Co. Ltd 128.96
Al-Amanah Islamic Bank of the Philippines 182.70


Source: www.bsp.gov.ph


Philippine Commercial Banking System
Total CAR
September 30, 2012






Bank Tier 1 CAR
United Coconut Planters Bank 10.41
Philippine National Bank 11.18
The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd 11.72
Allied Banking Corporation 12.70
Maybank Philippines Inc. 12.94
Land Bank of the Philippines 13.53
Bank of the Philippine Islands 13.67
East West Banking Corporation 13.95
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation 13.96
HongKong & Shanghai Banking Corporation 14.22
Standard Chartered Bank 14.31
Banco De Oro Unibank 14.39
China Banking Corporation 14.87
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company 15.02
Asia United Bank Corporation 15.13
Security Bank Corporation 15.82
ANZ Banking Group Ltd 16.46
Philippine Veterans Bank 17.61
Union Bank of the Philippines 17.70
Development Bank of the Philippines 17.84
Citibank N.A. 19.98
Deutsche Bank AG 20.39
Philippine Trust Company 20.63
Bank of Commerce 22.16
Robinsons Bank Corporation 23.00
Philippine Bank of Communications 26.38
Korea Exchange Bank 27.90
Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. - Manila Branch 28.15
Chinatrust (Philippines) Commercial Banking Corporation 29.09
BDO Private Bank, Inc. 29.28
Internationale Nederlanden Groep BK 34.81
Bank of China Limited - Manila Branch 38.81
JP Morgan Chase National Bank Association 44.53
Mega International Commercial Bank Company Limited 45.06
Bank of America N.A. 47.10
Bangkok Bank Public Co. Ltd 128.03
Al-Amanah Islamic Bank of the Philippines 472.67


Source: www.bsp.gov.ph

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