Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
New risk indicator shifts EU’s G-Sib score heatmap
Revision in substitutability category inflates mid-sized banks’ score, lowers G-Sibs’
Fed official confirms US targeting 2025 for Basel III adoption
US regulators also preparing more guidance on concentration risk for outsourcing providers
Singapore’s UOB bucks trend to seek FRTB model approval
Despite data challenges, bank is opting for IMA to enhance risk management
Policy-makers must keep the heat on climate transition
As the financial industry shows signs of climate fatigue, regulators need to pick up the slack
Global banks’ CET1 surplus hit 2.5-year high in 2021
Lenders in the Americas had smaller share of capital available for use than European peers
Regulator warns on fragmentation of climate risk supervision
International standards needed to support growing preference for Basel Pillar 2 approach
Hong Kong, India, Turkey lag behind on Basel III framework
Only Canada, Japan and Saudi Arabia ready for full implementation as January deadline approaches
Early FRTB adoption piles pressure on Japanese banks
Bankers fear competitive pain due to lack of NMRF data, possible EU and US deviations from Basel
A-IRB to lose credit risk reach under Basel III
Americas banks expected to generate just 40% of RWAs using internal models, from 67% currently
EU tweaks set to temper Basel III capital hike by a third
Changes to required capital for credit risk expected to be main driver behind average reduction
SA-CCR’s sacrifice: who stands to lose from new capital rules
Risk.net research shows the potential for dealers to be left at a disadvantage to their foreign rivals
Banks struggle to assess climate impact on op risk
Supervisors have provided less stress-testing guidance for op risk than for credit risk
Basel crypto capital plan threatens banks’ DLT projects
Proposed infrastructure add-on could make blockchain settlement and payment systems non-viable
Basel III output floor set to bind 24% of banks
Latest BCBS monitoring report shows four-fold increase over next seven years
European banks set for 17.5% capital hike under Basel III
Output floor could account for almost half the increase in Tier 1 capital requirements by 2028
EBA eyes top-down stress test for credit risk
European version of CCAR is off the table, but more projections are likely to be modelled by regulator
EU dealers’ IRC charges surge on debt market jitters
Santander and Natixis among hardest hit, with charges up 117% over first six months of the year
Europe’s countercyclical buffers buck recession trends
Almost half of EBU’s members have set out CCyB hikes; five plan two or more before mid-2023
A chilly reception for climate risk capital
Bankers don’t believe climate-adjusted risk-weights will enter EU prudential framework – not for now, at least
Looming slowdown casts doubt on countercyclical capital
Confusion over use of buffers makes bankers wonder if concept will ever be successful
Quarles calls for SLR ‘recalibration’ to support Treasuries
Former vice-chair says leverage ratio gold plate was based on flawed projections of Fed reserves
EU Parliament creates multiverse of SA-CCR outcomes
Some MEPs want to ease rules further than EC draft; others want return to undiluted Basel text
Using correlation to model op risk losses may be unsafe – study
Techniques for linking economic factors and bank losses produce varying – and sometimes contradictory – results
Regulators should be careful what they wish for on FRTB
New framework likely to reduce use of internal models, as planned; but is that a good thing?