News release: “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued the final version of its paper entitled Microfinance activities and the Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision. The Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (the Core Principles) are the global de facto standard for sound prudential regulation and supervision of banks…Besides illustrating the general… Continue Reading
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Federal Banking Agencies Issue Policy Statement on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management
News release: “The federal banking agencies, in conjunction with the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), released a policy statement today on their expectations for sound funding and liquidity risk management practices. This policy statement, adopted by each of the agencies, summarizes the principles of sound liquidity risk management issued previously and, when appropriate, supplements… Continue Reading
Trading book quantitative impact study by the Basel Committee: results
News release: “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued today the results of its recent trading book quantitative impact study, which assesses the impact of the revisions to the 1996 rules governing trading book capital. These revisions, which were originally published by the Committee in January 2009, were subsequently adopted in July 2009. Excluding the… Continue Reading
Report and recommendations of Cross-border Bank Resolution Group issued by Basel Committee
17 September 2009 – “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued for consultation the Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group. Mr Nout Wellink, Chairman of the Basel Committee and President of the Netherlands Bank, noted that “the recommendations seek to promote more orderly resolution of cross-border banks to reduce systemic risk… Continue Reading
2022 List of Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs)
Financial Stability Board: “The 2022 list of globally systemic banks (G-SIBs) is based on end-2021 data and an assessment methodology designed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), which was revised in 2018. The revised methodology is applied for the first time this year. The 30 banks on the list remain the same as… Continue Reading
Haircut floors for non-centrally cleared securities financing transactions – consultative document
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – Haircut floors for non-centrally cleared securities financing transactions – consultative document. November 5, 2015. “In October 2014, the FSB published a report on Strengthening Oversight and Regulation of Shadow Banking – Regulatory framework for haircuts on non-centrally cleared securities financing transactions and introduced a framework for haircut floors for non-centrally… Continue Reading
General guide to account opening – consultative document
Bank for International Settlements: “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued for public consultation a revised version of the General guide to account opening, which was first published in February 2003. Most bank-customer relationships start with an account opening procedure. The customer information collected and verified at this stage is crucial in order… Continue Reading
Guidelines for identifying and dealing with weak banks
Bank for International Settlements: “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today published the final Guidelines for identifying and dealing with weak banks. Weak banks are a worldwide phenomenon. They pose a continuing challenge for bank supervisors and resolution authorities in all countries, regardless of the political structure, financial system and level of economic and technical… Continue Reading
Interplay of accounting and regulation and its impact on bank behaviour: Literature review
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Working Papers No 28 January 2015 “Regulatory and accounting rules are important determinants of bank behaviour; however, the interaction of the two is often not well understood and their intended outcomes do not always align. This Basel Committee working paper reviews academic literature on the interplay of accounting and regulatory… Continue Reading
Criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable securitisations
“The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) released today a consultative document on Criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable securitisations. The purpose of these criteria is to identify – and to assist the financial industry’s development of – simple, transparent and comparable securitisations structures, as well as to help… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board proposes rule to further strengthen capital positions of the largest, most systemically important U.S. bank holding companies
” The Federal Reserve Board on [December 9, 2014] proposed a rule to further strengthen the capital positions of the largest, most systemically important U.S. bank holding companies. The proposal establishes a methodology to identify whether a U.S. bank holding company is a global systemically important banking organization, or GSIB. A firm identified as a GSIB would… Continue Reading
Report on supervisory colleges for financial conglomerates
“The Joint Forum has today released its report on supervisory colleges for financial conglomerates. The report, the result of a recent self-assessment survey of Joint Forum members, presents findings on how far cross-sectoral issues, and specific questions related to financial conglomerates, are effectively addressed within supervisory colleges. This stocktaking exercise also provides information on the implementation of the… Continue Reading
