BoJ deputy urges thorough analysis of risk weight revisions

Some market participants fear they could restrict financing for development

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Hiroshi Nakaso

Bank of Japan deputy governor Hiroshi Nakaso today (September 2) urged a "thorough cost-benefit analysis" of revisions to the ‘standardised approach for credit risk' proposed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Nakaso said the revisions would increase the risk weights assigned to corporate exposures, project finance and equities, adding "not a few market participants" had warned the "potential impact on financing for development can be huge".

"While I understand that the revisions

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