Regulatory Alerts2025-01-21 | IFPD Circular Letter No. 01Instructions for Profit and Loss Distribution and Pool Management for IBIs
The Islamic Finance Policy Department has issued updated instructions governing profit and loss distribution and pool management for Islamic Banking Institutions. The circular mandates that provisions against non-performing assets, write-offs, and losses on investment sales be charged to their respective pools, with any provision reversals or investment value benefits allocated back to the same pool. Additionally, the directive removes the prior restriction excluding fixed assets from these calculations while preserving all other existing circular provisions.
Circulars/Notifications - Islamic Finance Policy Department
IFPD Circular Letter No. 01 of 2025
January 21, 2025
The Presidents/Chief Executives All Islamic Banks and All Conventional Banks having Islamic Banking Branches
Dear Sir/Madam,
Instructions for Profit and Loss Distribution and Pool Management for IBIs
Please refer to IBD Circular No. 03 dated November 19, 2012 as amended vide IBD Circular Letter No. 01 dated January 01, 2013 on the above subject. In this regard, it is clarified that the provisions created against non-performing assets as per relevant SBP regulations will be charged to the respective pool. Accordingly, para 2.3.1 of the “Instructions for Profit & Loss Distribution and Pool Management for IBIs” is replaced with the following:
“The provisions created against non-performing assets as per relevant SBP regulations, write-offs and loss on sale of investments shall be charged to respective pool along with other direct expenses. In case of any reversal of the provisions expense/value in investment, the benefit shall be allocated to the same pool.”
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Moreover, in para 2 of IFPD Circular No. 9 dated November 26, 2024, the phrase “(excluding fixed assets)” stands deleted.
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Other instructions of the above referred Circulars/Circular Letter shall remain unchanged.
Yours truly,
Sd/-
(Dr. Zahid Ur Rehman Khokher) Director