General Banking Law of 2000 Flashcards
Entities engaged in the lending of funds obtained in the form of deposits.
Banks
Entities engaged in the borrowing of funds through the issuance, endorsement, or assignment with recourse to or acceptance of deposit substitutes.
Quasi-banks
What are the conditions under which the Monetary Board may authorize the organization of a bank or quasi-bank?
- Entity is a stock corporation.
- Funds are obtained from the public, meaning 20 or more persons
- Minimum capital requirements prescribed are satisfied
What is the nature of banking?
It is fiduciary in nature that requires high standard of integrity and performance.
What should the banks have to be able to register the Articles of Incorporation with the SEC?
Certificate of Authority from Monetary Board
The Certificate of Authority shall not be issued unless the Monetary Board is satisfied with what?
- That all requirements of existing laws and regulations have been complied with.
2.That the public interest and economic conditions justify the authorization. - That the amount of capital reasonably assures the safety of deposits and the public interest.
Can an entity performing banking or a quasi-banking function operate without a certificate of authority?
No
These are banks that have authority to exercise, in addition to the powers and functions of commercial banks, the powers of an investment house, and the power to invest in non-allied enterprises.
Universal Banks
These are banks that are given all the power necessary to engage in commercial banking in addition to general corporate powers.
Commercial Banks
What do commercial banking powers include?
- To accept drafts
- To issue letters of credits
- Discounting and negotiation of negotiable instruments and evidence of debt
- Accept and create demand deposits and the like
These are banks composed of savings and mortgage banks, stock savings, and loan associations, and private development banks
Thrift Banks
These are banks that are created to make needed credit available and readily accessible in rural areas.
Rural Banks
These are banks that provide services to cooperative organizations and their members
Cooperative Banks
A bank also known as the Charted of Al Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines
Islamic Banks
Can all banks accept or create demand deposits?
No, only the universal or commercial bank can do that.
What banks are subject to the approval of the Monetary Board for accepting or creating demand deposits?
- Thrift
- Rural
- Cooperative
- Islamic
The operations and activities of banks shall be subject to supervision of what?
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Supervision of banks shall include what?
- Issuance of rules of conduct or establishment of standards
- Conducting examination to determine compliance per warrant of the Monetary Board
- Overseeing to ascertain laws and regulations are complied
- Regular investigation once a year and more than once if deficiencies/irregularities are not addressed
- Inquiry to solvency and liquidity
- Enforcing prompt corrective action
Who prescribes the minimum ratio which the net worth of a bank must bear to its total risk assets that may include contingent accounts.?
Monetary Board
It is and risk assets of a bank and its subsidiaries, financial or otherwise.
Minimum Ratio
The Monetary Board shall prescribe a minimum ratio provided that what?
- It conforms to internationally accepted standards, including those of Bank for International Settlements (BIS), relating to risk-based capital requirements.
- It may alter or suspend compliance for a maximum of one year.
- Such ratio shall be applied uniformly to banks of same category
What would the Monetary Board do in case a bank does not comply with the prescribed minimum ratio?
- Limit or prohibit the distribution of net profits.
- Restrict or prohibit the acquisition of assets and making new investments.
What would happen to the prescribed minimum ratio of the surviving bank, consolidated bank, or banks and corporations under rehabilitation?
Monetary Board may temporarily relieve them from full compliance with the required capital ratio as it may prescribe.
It is the current international standard for setting minimum capital adequacy requirements.
Basle Risk-based Capital Framework
What is the required minimum ratio under Philippine laws?
10%
What is the internationally recommended minimum ratio?
8%
What are the basic functions of banks?
Deposit Function
Loan Function
What are the other functions of banks?
- Receive in custody funds, documents, and valuable objects.
- Act as a financial agent to do things in all types of of securities.
- Make collections and payments for the account of others.
- Under prior approval, act as managing agent, adviser, consultant or administrator of investment accounts.
- Rent out safety deposit boxes.
What are the prohibited acts for banks?
- Engaging in insurance business as the insurer.
- Outsourcing of functions