The NBU Economic Standards as an Instrument for Regulating the Banking Activities

Abstract

Researching the problems of banking supervision in the course of the policy of cleaning the banking system of Ukraine is of particular importance. The issues of efficiency of regulation of the activities of commercial banks with the help of economic standards of the NBU remain topical. The article is aimed at a theoretical-methodical substantiation of the NBU economic standards system and identifying the peculiarities of their application as instruments for regulating the banking activities. The state of compliance with capital, liquidity and credit risk standards by commercial banks of Ukraine is examined. A correlation and regression analysis of the impact of credit risk standards on the volumes of overdue credit arrears of banks is carried out. Ways to improve the system of regulation of the activities of commercial banks based on the principles developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision are proposed. A further proposal is made as to introducing an additional economic standard for the regulation of credit risks, which would assess the risks of repayment of loans. In addition, it will be expedient for Ukraine to build a conceptual banking supervision, which will ensure close interaction of components in order to improve the efficiency of banking institutions. A comprehensive system of banking supervision should diagnose the level of risks and implement systems of their management at the level of each separate banking institution.

Keywords

• economic standards
• the national bank of ukraine
• banking system
• regulatory capital
• banking regulation
• banking supervision
• credit risk