Chinese Stocks, Yuan Primed for Gains on Return From Holidays
Chinese shares and the onshore yuan climbed on their return from a holiday, with sentiment boosted by Beijing’s supportive policy stance and signs of a continued consumption recovery.
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Nov 24, 2020
Bloomberg News
,Canada’s banking regulator is in no hurry to lift restrictions on dividends or share buy backs, the agency’s top official said.
Jeremy Rudin, head of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, said in a speech Monday that he won’t loosen curbs on how financial institutions use their capital until risks of another economic setback have almost fully dissipated.
Earlier this year, Rudin banned banks from increasing dividends, buying back shares and increasing executive compensation to ensure the lenders had sufficient capital to weather the downturn.
“From our perspective, keeping the restrictions on a bit too long is not as serious a mistake as taking them off too soon,” Rudin said during the Ottawa-based agency’s 2020 Risk Management Webinar for Deposit-taking Institutions. A transcript of the remarks was posted Tuesday on the regulator’s website.
“We’ll begin to relax those restrictions when we get to the point where we think that there are few if any plausible paths that lead to a second pandemic-induced setback for the economy,” he said.
Rudin said the regulator will know when the time is right by how much uncertainty remains over the economic outlook. He added there’s no set date or any particular indicator that would trigger the decision.
If restrictions are in place longer than necessary, “the capital simply stays in the bank and it will be there to be distributed later when the restrictions come off,” Rudin said. “If, on the other hand, we take the restrictions off too soon, the capital leaves the bank and it cannot be recaptured when it is needed.”
The restrictions were part of a suite of measures rolled out by Rudin in mid-March, as part of a broader government and central bank effort to keep financial markets functioning amid pandemic lockdowns. The regulator also helped the sector by temporarily lowering capital buffers, releasingg about $300 billion in capital for new lending.