Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
Banks falling behind on Basel risk data principles
Room for improvement
Goodhart: Regulatory reform 'won't stop next crisis'
An LSE audience hears predictions of a new credit crunch in 2025
Banks ask Basel Committee to delay trading book impact studies
Completing the two studies on schedule will be "nigh-on impossible" bankers claim – but regulators are thought to be wary of a postponement
Basel leverage ratio may force CSA restructuring
Cash collateral can only reduce derivatives exposure if it matches the currency of the underlying swap, threatening existing CSAs and even the new standard CSA
Avoid one-size-fits-all capital approach, says Osfi’s Zelmer
Regulators have increasingly been pushing for less reliance on bank internal models, but Osfi’s deputy superintendent of the regulation sector, Mark Zelmer, thinks internal models have a place
Basel said to be weighing leverage ratio U-turn
Cash collateral may be allowed to bring down derivatives exposure - and repo treatments could also be softened, according to three industry sources
India counter-cyclical buffer proposals a 'tax on banks'
India proposals for CCB has too narrow a focus
VAB’s Winter: Collateral rules risk derivatives and liquidity
Regulating collateral
Italy follows Ireland in retaining AFS bond filter
Banca d'Italia proposes to allow its banks to ignore some government bond volatility
Embedding the Bank for International Settlements risk data aggregation and reporting principles across the organisation
Sponsored statement: Moody's Analytics
Bank initial margin posting raises liquidation concerns
Initial fears
Asia Risk Congress: BIS points to Asia example as evidence new LCR not 'relaxed'
Asian regulators' partial recognition of Level 2B assets justifies revised Basel liquidity approach
Risk USA: Regulators cannot hide from bank models, says Osfi’s Zelmer
Leverage-only approach would set prudential rules back 50 years, warns senior Canadian regulator
China relaxes liquidity rules to fall in with Basel timeline
New approach to liquidity risk intended to reduce the regulation's pro-cyclicality
Cross-border cultural concerns are a priority for Raiffeisen
Raiffeisen Bank International operates across central and eastern Europe – op risk head Nicole Murtinger discusses the cultural challenges this brings her
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
Regulators pine for the simple life
Prudential regulation is too complicated, the Basel Committee has conceded - but that does not mean it will embrace an all-powerful leverage ratio. By Duncan Wood
ECB’s Russo: indirect clearing model needs work
Clarification call on capital charges that apply to indirect clearing
Acting as a clearing member will be uneconomical – Isda panel
New proposed rules on CCP default fund capital and the leverage ratio will together make acting as a clearing member uneconomical, says industry panel
FX options clearing a 'big challenge', warns NY Fed official
Speaking at the FX Invest West Coast conference, the New York Fed's Jeanmarie Davis addressed the challenges associated with clearing and settlement of forex options
Basel III capital charges to dent bank M&A activity
Capital controls
FX swaps and forwards off initial margin hook
Working Group on Margining Requirements has confirmed the exemption of FX swaps and forwards from initial margin, as well as a more restricted exemption for cross-currency swaps
Risk interdealer rankings 2013: Dealers
Shakes, rattles and rolls
Pakistan adds Basel III capital surcharge to allow for modelling shortfalls
State Bank of Pakistan outlines its Basel III capital requirements for domestic banks