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General Guidance for Developing Differential Premium Systems

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October 31, 2011<br />

10. Turkey<br />

Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF) is the unique deposit insurer of Turkey.<br />

It is as well an autonomous legal entity. Membership in the Deposit Insurance<br />

Scheme is compulsory <strong>for</strong> all <strong>for</strong>eign and domestic deposit- and participation<br />

fund-taking institutions.<br />

On the basis of a protocol signed between BRSA (Banking Regulation and<br />

Supervision Agency) and SDIF, SDIF uses the database of BRSA <strong>for</strong> the<br />

determination of differential premiums where the database essentially<br />

contains financial statements of the banks including the outstanding saving<br />

deposit and participation fund balances, and in<strong>for</strong>mation such as ratios used in<br />

the differential premium system.<br />

In Turkey deposit insurance premium rates of the banks are not publicly<br />

available. However financial statements of the banks are disclosed quarterly<br />

to the public including some essential banking ratios.<br />

SDIF started to use a differential premium system first in 2005 and revised<br />

the system and introduced the current differential premium system in 2009.<br />

SDIF uses <strong>for</strong> all its member institutions (deposit and participation banks) the<br />

same ratios while calculating the scores and the premium rates of the banks.<br />

The differential/ risk adjusted premium system evaluates banks according to<br />

their risk profile and takes higher premiums from high-risk banks and lower<br />

premiums from low risk-banks.<br />

The differential premium system categorizes member institutions into four<br />

premium categories depending on the total score between the lowest “0” and<br />

the highest “100”. Each category corresponds to a premium ratio (11, 13, 15<br />

or 19 basis points) determined by SDIF. Deposit insurance premiums are the<br />

major revenue source of SDIF.<br />

The 14 evaluation factors of the differential premium system include both<br />

qualitative and quantitative factors. While adopting the premium system SDIF<br />

took into account comments from BRSA, the Central Bank and the Treasury<br />

Under secretariat and utilized experiences of countries like Canada and the<br />

USA.<br />

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