Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Ingves outlines Basel Committee response to ‘excessive variation’ in risk-weighted assets
Basel Committee 'endorses' final details of NSFR and turns attention to comparability of risk-based ratios; expands membership to include ECB’s single supervisory mechanism
Barnier hints at longer pensions clearing exemption for OTC derivatives
The EC's outgoing head of internal markets, Michel Barnier, has hinted the Commission will extend a pension funds derivatives clearing exemption beyond 2015
World's biggest banks $60bn closer to Basel III target
Internationally active banks $20bn short of Basel III target, compared with $80bn six months earlier, according to Basel Committee review
Final liquidity rules issued for biggest US banks
‘More stringent' liquidity coverage ratio will come into effect in January 2017; Fed adopts final rule on supplementary leverage ratio, asks for input on swap margin rules
Bank rules would be stricter if UK left EU, says Bowles
European Parliament helped protect industry from tough trade finance capital requirements as well as blanket CVA charge, former MEP tells House of Lords inquiry
BoE’s Cunliffe says leverage ratio is no mere ‘backstop'
Bank of England deputy governor says leverage and risk-weighted capital ratios serve different purposes; term ‘shadow banking’ casts a pall over productive aspects of non-bank financial services
Financial Policy Committee angles for full powers over UK leverage ratio regime
Bank of England body poised to ask for lead role in design and implementation of leverage ratios in UK; move described as a natural fit
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'