News
17 March 2020

New accounting rules pose risk to banks amid coronavirus pandemic

Region:
Americas, Europe

As the coronavirus pandemic threatens to plunge the world into recession, new accounting rules pose a significant threat to part of the banking sector by forcing earlier recognition of loan losses.The adoption of Europe-led accounting standard IFRS 9 has a “procyclical effect”, a member...

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