Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
Apec finance chiefs affirm commitment to Basel III and central clearing
Apec finance chiefs pledge to implement Basel III capital, liquidity and OTC derivative reforms at 18th Apec finance ministers' meeting in Hawaii
Video: ING Asia CRO Doug Caldwell on Solvency II and use of liquidity swaps in Asia
Local insurers are still offering products at cheaper prices compared with insurers offering risk-based capital structures compliant with Solvency II, according to Doug Caldwell, chief risk officer for ING Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Caldwell also…
Basel proposals reduce need to sign guaranteed portability agreements
Changes to bank capital rules on CCP exposures remove the need for bank clients to enter into contractual agreements to port trades to other clearing members
FSB unveils list of global systemically important financial institutions
Four Asian banks are among the FSB's initial list of global systemically important financial institutions, including three from Japan and one from China
Risk USA: Sifi rules would be a failure if banks don't downsize
Some banks want to be on the list of global Sifis – exactly the opposite to what the rules are intended to achieve, says former chairman of the Basel Committee standards implementation group
CDS: not dead yet
CDS: not dead yet
People: Apra's Wayne Byres named to Basel role
Basel Committee appoints Australian regulator
Dealers predict CVA-CDS loop will create sovereign volatility
A recipe for disaster?
Credit Suisse and UBS on Basel 2.5: Half a world away
Half a world away
Illiquidity holding back CCDS, despite Basel III endorsement
Where is the liquidity?
Q&A: Stefan Walter on Basel III, RWAs, 'anti-American' rules and CVA
“It’s good to have hard deadlines”
Risk USA: Regulators need to be wary of capital overshoot, says Roldán
Adding to Basel III capital levels might have unintended consequences, says former chair of Basel Committee’s standards implementation group
Asia Risk Congress 2011: ‘Strong baseline supervision’ a domestic priority, says CBRC head
Chinese banking watchdog director-general Luo Ping says China should continue with its conservative regulatory approach, which insulated it against the worst effects of the global financial crisis
Basel Committee appoints Australian regulator as next secretary-general
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has appointed Wayne Byres as secretary-general, replacing Stefan Walter
Basel Committee's Sigor to undertake review of operational risk regulatory framework
Wide-ranging review seeks to raise operational risk capital and overhaul the basic indicator and standardised approaches
Delayed Basel trading book review will be broad, say supervisors
Basel Committee is expected to consider wide range of topics, including VAR, liquidity, CVA and the line between banking and trading books - but overall capital requirements are not likely to change
Basel 2.5: regulators still wrestling with Dodd-Frank clash
Barriers to Basel
UK’s FPC changes tack on capital requirements
Loosely worded document does not clarify FPC’s demands on banks; new regulatory body asks for more powers in new legislation
Video: Industry experts clash over whether to publish liquidity ratios
A Basel III conference panel disagree over whether banks should publish liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio estimates now, even though the final rules are not yet agreed
HFT is changing the ecology of the FX market, says BIS committee
Bank for International Settlements report on high-frequency trading in the FX market is lukewarm about recent initiatives to monitor HFT and recommends further analysis by regulators and participants
Credit risk boundary events to be a focus for regulators
The Basel Committee's Sigor group will spend time on credit risk-related operational risk loss events at its upcoming October meeting in Frankfurt
Basel trading book review delayed
Fundamental review of Basel trading book rules may not begin in earnest until March 2012
Complexity Basel 2.5's biggest problem, Risk.net poll finds
As banks prepare for year-end introduction of new trading book rules, poll respondents single out the framework's modular approach for criticism
Sovereign debt crisis undermines LCR, critics say
Bankers at Eurofi conference in Wroclaw, Poland call for a wider range of assets to be eligible for Basel III's liquidity coverage ratio