Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Regulation may force some banks out of repos, says NY Fed's Davis
The New York Fed's head of financial market infrastructure, Jeanmarie Davis, says some banks will 'revisit their presence' in the repo business due to increased regulatory requirements
People: Greek governor confirmed; Ingves re-appointed to Basel Committee
The appointment of Yannis Stournaras as Bank of Greece governor has been confirmed in parliament; Ingves has a new term at the Basel committee; and more
Basel committee revisits 2002 guidance on 'weak banks'
Update to BCBS guidelines is the first since long before the financial crisis; Ingves says ‘early identification and intervention by supervisors is critical'
Caruana says ‘naïve' to be seduced by simple rules
Financial markets will continue to innovate to get around financial regulations - meaning regulators must also keep innovating, says BIS's Jaime Caruana
Ingves says responsibility for liquidity risk management lies with banks, not regulators
Basel Committee chairman says banks must develop controls to help them manage the liquidity risk that is inherent in their activities of maturity transformation
FSB issues peer review on ‘uneven' progress to end credit ratings reliance
Basel-based Financial Stability Board says its members must not replace mechanistic reliance on credit rating agencies with an equally narrow substitute
Ingves says job of supervisors just beginning as Basel III nears completion
As the Basel III rules approach completion, the job of implementing the regulatory framework is only just beginning, Stefan Ingves says
Coen appointed new Basel Committee secretary-general
William Coen takes over Basel Committee secretariat after seven years as deputy; Wayne Byres leaves to head Australia’s prudential regulator
Ingves touts simplicity of final Basel CCP rules
Chairman of the Basel Committee says final rules for banks’ exposure to CCPs show success of ‘relatively simple solutions’, which includes single approach for calculating capital requirements
Bank of England and ECB in joint call to put ABS back in play
European Central Bank and Bank of England promise more thorough treatment of how to reverse asset-backed securities market decline - which could allow ECB to undertake QE
World's biggest banks $80bn short of Basel III capital
Results from Basel Committee's latest monitoring exercise of banks' compliance with new regulatory framework shows progress but also some setbacks
Ingves says banking industry must acknowledge problem around risk weights
The variation in how banks set risk weights is a problem that some in the industry are ignoring, says Basel Committee chairman
Ingves: Basel Committee still has ‘quite a bit of work to do’ on leverage ratio
Stefan Ingves tells banking supervisors in Asia-Pacific there is plenty of work left to do before the Basel Committee will be able to settle on the final calibration of the leverage ratio
Fed floats ‘advanced approach' for calculating risk weights
Biggest US banks will use new approach to calculate risk-based capital ratios from Q2 2014; changes to stress-test procedures pushed back a year to October 2015
Prasarn says Thailand still unsure of CCP viability
Thai governor says emerging markets need more time to assess whether creating central counterparties would bring the ‘intended benefits’ without ‘undue consequences’
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