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Industry to call for €50,000 minimum EU hedge fund threshold
An industry body formed to analyse the current organisation of the alternative investments business in the European Union (EU) will tomorrow call for no specific regulation of hedge funds save for a minimum investment threshold requirement of €50,000.
More IT for MiFID
MiFID's success hinges on IT prospects, write Choongo Moonga and Phil Craig . But many in the industry are balking at the costs involved
The importance of ALM
The crossfire between the International Accounting Standards Board and the European Commission seems to have left corporates bewildered about the implications of IAS 39. Risk talks to leading advisory groups and corporates about the challenges ahead, and…
Basel II package rapporteur named
Alexander Radwan has been named the rapporteur for the package of Basel II legislation winding its way through the European parliament.
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EU Commission sets out its stall on CAD
The EU Commission published a feedback document on its website today on the responses to its third consultation paper on revisions to the Capital Adequacy Directive (CAD).
EU Commission considers changes to op risk framework
The EU Commission is considering modest changes to the operational risk framework of its proposed capital adequacy directive (CAD), in response to comments received to its most recent draft, according to a source within the organisation.
EU moves to finalise CAD
With 130 responses to its latest draft of the capital adequacy directive (CAD) now in hand, the EU Commission is looking to make the directive into law.
Economic capital – how much do you really need?
Economic capital is becoming the language of risk. While market, credit and operational risk have different determinants and use different methodologies, the levels of risk can all be summarised in a common dimension – the amount of economic capital…
EU Commission outlines region's Basel II impact
More than 1,000 investment firms and 9,322 banks will implement the EU's capital adequacy directive, according to Patrick Pearson, head of banking and financial conglomerates unit of the internal markets division of the EU Commission.
There can be no more Basel delays, warns Bolkestein
The European Union will not meet its CAD 3 implementation targets if the new Basel II capital Accord is hit by further delays, Frits Bolkestein, internal market and taxation commissioner for the European Commission (EC), warned at a conference today.
European Commission welcomes IASB compromise
The European Commission has welcomed yesterday’s International Accounting Standards Board decision to try to allow for ‘macro-hedging’ as part of proposed new accounting standards, due to come into place in 2005.
European Commission publishes consultation results
Brussels - Over 100 written responses to a consultation on a new framework on capital requirements for banks and investment firms have been published on the European Commission's website.
Why risk IT?
Ever more complex investment risks with crushing liability factors and increased client scrutiny demand new and highly sophisticated technology, says Adrian Pay of LatentZero.
EU supervisory committee to be established
The European Commission is establishing a supervisory committee designed to promote convergence among EU nations in the adoption of the Basel Accord revisions and the related EU Capital Adequacy Directive (CAD), according to Jean-Claude Thebault, head of…
Corporate governance hots up on the continent
Continental European countries are increasing their focus on corporate governance issues.
EU spells out pillar 2 powers
BRUSSELS – The European Commission seems to have spelled out how it sees the second pillar – supervisory review – of its new bank capital rules in greater detail than global banking regulators have so far done for the Basel II accord, banking industry…
Europe considers wider op-risk insurance role in new capital rules
BRUSSELS - The European Commission confirmed today it proposes the possible recognition of operational risk insurance as a way of reducing capital charges in all three methods of measuring op risk in its new protective capital rules for banks and…
EU expected to report on Cad 3 progress next week
BRUSSELS – The European Commission is expected to give details on November 18 about how it intends applying the complex Basel II bank safety rules in the European Union, commission officials confirmed today.
Basel II op risk charge will help tackle concerns, says McDonough
NEW YORK - Banking supervisors believe that a separate capital charge for operational risk under the Basel II capital rules will bolster efforts to find better ways of addressing concern about the operational hazards faced by banks, the world's chief…
Europe allows wider role for op risk insurance in Cad 3
European banks and investment firms would be able to use operational risk insurance to reduce capital charges in all approaches to measuring op risk under new European Union (EU) capital adequacy rules.
EU Cad 3 paper delayed to mid-November
BRUSSELS – The European Commission hopes to issue an update on progress with its complex third bank capital adequacy directive (Cad 3) in mid-November, a delay to its original plan to publish a paper in late October, a commission spokesman said today.
Regulator urges UK banks to look hard at EU capital proposals
LONDON – UK banks should look hard at a draft text of European Union (EU) capital rules that the European Commission plans to issue around the end of October, the UK’s senior financial regulator said today.
Basel II securitisation issues conclusion expected this week
Experts expect this week to finalise their proposals for handling the one major issue still outstanding in the complex Basel II Accord aimed at making the world’s banking system safer – the technically thorny question of how to treat the credit risks for…