Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Ingves calls for consistency in risk weights for credible capital ratios
BCBS chair says underlying differences in risk drive lion's share of risk-weight variations, but some arise from supervisory and practice-based idiosyncrasies
Risk discrimination 'essential', argues Bank of Spain deputy
Fernando Restoy rebuffs 'excessively simplistic approaches that prevent capital requirements being adapted to each bank's business model'
Nepal central bank cautious on Basel III counter-cyclical buffer
Central bank to study need for counter-cyclical buffer in a developing economy
Basel Committee publishes leverage ratio definition
Basel Committee agrees common definition for simple bank leverage ratio; discussions set to continue over the appropriate required level
2013: The year in review
The past year has seen growing acceptance of a new normal in central banking, and concrete progress on various elements of bank regulation – we look back at the biggest stories of 2013
Basel Committee says world's biggest banks can't report risk adequately
Globally systemic banks have provided the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision with an update on their progress towards risk reporting goals - revealing deficiencies in data aggregation
India's counter-cyclical buffer proposals a 'tax on banks'
Government-linked think-tank claims India's counter-cyclical buffer focuses too narrowly on banks, and fails to address real issues in the country's finance system
Basel Committee gives Brazilian capital standards the nod in new report
Standards are deemed overall compliant with Basel III, report published today concludes; Central Bank of Brazil's approach to market risk considered ‘more prudent' than the Basel standardised version
RBI consults on treatment of domestic systemically important banks
Reserve Bank of India releases proposals for identifying domestic systemically important banks and increasing their capital requirements; state-owned banks may need capital injections
Initial margin to significantly impact development of Asian derivatives markets: Asifma
Asifma head Austen wants exclusion of initial margin from Asian jurisdictions’ derivatives market regulation
Ingves says Basel reforms must move ahead
Resolving issues around regulatory implementation will take time, Basel Committee chairman says, but he emphasises the ‘status quo cannot be maintained'
Basel Committee reveals data behind G-Sib designations
Bank for International Settlements publishes figures used to calculate systemic importance and the thresholds for ‘buckets’; FSB designates new bank a G-Sib and shuffles existing list
Asia Risk Congress: BIS points to Asian example as evidence new LCR not 'relaxed'
Asian regulators' partial recognition of Level 2B assets justifies revised Basel liquidity approach
RBA’s Ellis warns against regulatory ‘monoculture’
Reserve Bank of Australia’s financial stability head says regulatory consistency is ‘important’ but should not result in identical business models that could all be vulnerable to one particular shock
China relaxes liquidity rules to fall in with Basel timeline
New approach to liquidity risk intended to reduce the regulation's pro-cyclicality; new rules come into effect on January 1, 2014
Central Bank of Ireland diverges from Basel III on AFS bonds
Irish bank capital numbers would filter out unrealised gains and losses on government bonds
Ingves addresses Basel 25th anniversary audience
Riksbank governor and Basel committee chair highlights five developments over the past quarter of a century, including a shift from a micro- to a macro-prudential perspective
Basel update shows biggest banks' CET1 position improving
Latest periodical review of progress towards Basel III standards shows the world's biggest banks are closing the gap on core Tier I capital requirements; US issues guidelines for Basel compliance
MAS's Menon says Basel rules could hit infrastructure finance
Basel III regulations could disincentivise long-term lending, particularly to private-sector projects, warns Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director Ravi Menon
ECB’s Russo: indirect clearing model needs work
Head of payments and market infrastructure at the ECB calls for greater clarity from regulators on the capital treatment of indirect clearing
Basel's Byres says 'single global rulebook' wouldn't work
Different jurisdictions require different financial rules, according to the secretary general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, but efforts should be made to standardise risk weighting
Regulators exempt forex swaps and forwards from initial margin rules
Working Group on Margining Requirements exempt forex swaps and forwards from initial margin rule for non-centrally cleared derivatives; offer a more restricted exemption for cross-currency swaps
US takes lead in ending credit rating agency ‘hard-wiring’, says FSB
China, Indonesia and South Korea have made little progress in dealing with concerns about over-reliance on credit rating agencies; US takes the lead, followed by Europe, in reducing hardwiring of ratings in the financial system, FSB report finds
Pakistan adds Basel III capital surcharge to allow for modelling shortfalls
State Bank of Pakistan outlines its Basel III capital requirements for domestic banks