Basel III counterparty credit risk – Frequently asked questions (update of FAQs published in July 2012), November 2012 “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has received a number of interpretation questions related to the December 2010 publication of the Basel III regulatory frameworks for capital and liquidity and the 13 January 2011 press release on… Continue Reading
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Basel III: Necessary, but not sufficient (speech by Wayne Byres)
Remarks by Wayne Byres, Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, prepared for the Financial Stability Institute’s 6th Biennial Conference on Risk Management and Supervision, Basel, 6 November 2012: “My main message to you this afternoon is that implementing Basel III is essential, but it must be accompanied by other measures and reforms… Continue Reading
CRS – U.S. Implementation of the Basel Capital Regulatory Framework
U.S. Implementation of the Basel Capital Regulatory Framework, Darryl E. Getter, Specialist in Financial Economics. September 20, 2012 “The Basel III international regulatory framework, which was produced in 2010 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision at the Bank for International Settlements, is the latest in a series of evolving agreements among central banks and… Continue Reading
Basel III counterparty credit risk – Frequently asked questions
Basel III counterparty credit risk – Frequently asked questions, July 2012 “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has received a number of interpretation questions related to the December 2010 publication of the Basel III regulatory frameworks for capital and liquidity and the 13 January 2011 press release on the loss absorbency of capital at the… Continue Reading
Composition of capital disclosure requirements – Rules text (Basel Committee)
Composition of capital disclosure requirements – Rules text June 2012 “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a set of disclosure requirements on the composition of banks’ capital. During the financial crisis, market participants and supervisors were hampered in their efforts to undertake detailed assessments of banks’ capital positions and make cross-jurisdictional comparisons. The… Continue Reading
Report to G20 Leaders on Basel III implementation
Report to G20 Leaders on Basel III implementation – June 2012 “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has established a comprehensive implementation review process to ensure its globally-agreed standards are implemented fully by member jurisdictions. A key element of the process is transparency, including reporting to the G20 Leaders. As such, this report of interim… Continue Reading
Basel III definition of capital – Frequently asked questions
Basel III definition of capital – Frequently asked questions, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, December 2011 “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has received a number of interpretation questions related to the 16 December 2010 publication of the Basel III regulatory frameworks for capital and liquidity and the 13 January 2011 press release on the… Continue Reading
Basel III counterparty credit risk – Frequently asked questions (Basel Committee)
Basel III counterparty credit risk – Frequently asked questions (Basel Committee) The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has received a number of interpretation questions related to the 16 December 2010 publication of the Basel III regulatory frameworks for capital and liquidity and the 13 January 2011 press release on the loss absorbency of capital at… Continue Reading
BIS – Interpretive issues with respect to Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework
“In this document, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“the Committee”) provides responses to interpretive issues regarding the Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework (“the Revisions”) and the Guidelines for computing capital for incremental risk in the trading book (“the IRC Guidelines”). Updated versions of this document will be published on the Committee’s… Continue Reading
BIS: Basel capital framework's treatment of trade finance
News release: “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has evaluated the impact of Basel II and Basel III on trade finance in the context of low income countries. As a result, it adopted two technical changes to the Basel regulatory capital adequacy framework related to the treatment of trade finance that will help promote trade… Continue Reading
Speech: Basel III: a roadmap to better banking regulation and supervision
Basel III: a roadmap to better banking regulation and supervision, Remarks by Nout Wellink, Chairman, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – President, De Nederlandsche Bank – FSI High-Level Meeting on the New Framework to Strengthen Financial Stability and Regulatory Priorities, St. Petersburg, Russia, 24 May 2011 Continue Reading
Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision announces higher global minimum capital standards
News release: “At its 12 September 2010 meeting, the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, announced a substantial strengthening of existing capital requirements and fully endorsed the agreements it reached on 26 July 2010. These capital reforms, together with the introduction of a global… Continue Reading
