Supervisors report capital and liquidity resilience across banks
Basel II remains most adopted global standard among respondents
Most supervisory bodies report local banks have capital adequacy and satisfactory levels of liquidity, data from the Supervision Benchmarks 2026 shows.
Supervisors from 36 institutions rated banks’ capital and liquidity levels in their jurisdictions on a scoring system of one (severe shortcoming) to five (very strong). The overall scores for capital levels average 4.2, while that of liquidity averages 4.3.
More than three-fifths of supervisors say banks in their jurisdictions have strong (63.9%)
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