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CBUAE enhances framework for real estate exposure of banks

The new standards will take effect from 30th December 2021.
  • The comprehensive standards require banks to review and improve their internal policies to enhance sound underwriting, valuation and general risk management.
  • Banks with higher risk-weighted real estate exposure in their portfolios will be subject to a more extensive supervisory review of their underwriting and risk management .

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has developed an enhanced framework to supervise banks’ exposures to the real estate sector, media reports said.

The new standards cover all types of on-balance-sheet loans and investments, and all off-balance-sheet exposures to the real estate sector as well as refine definitions, measurement and supervision, facilitating the adoption of best practices in bank real estate financing and risk management.

The comprehensive standards require banks to review and improve their internal policies to enhance sound underwriting, valuation and general risk management for their real estate exposures, the reports said.

The new methodology also introduces measurement of these exposures, based on credit risk-weighted assets using the CBUAE’s capital adequacy standards.

Banks with higher risk-weighted real estate exposure in their portfolios will be subject to a more extensive supervisory review of their underwriting and risk management practices in this segment.

According to the reports, the standards will take effect from 30th December 2021, starting with a one-year observation period, during which banks will be required to enhance their practices to meet the new standards, and the CBUAE will evaluate these standards based on a supervisory review during the observation period.

Khaled Mohamed Balama, Governor of the CBUAE, was quoted saying that the “Banks will continue to play a crucial role in financing real estate and construction, which are vital sectors of the UAE economy”.