Basel Committee
QIS3 survey delay puts back Basle II accord to 2006
BASLE II UPDATE
FSA disappointed by latest delay to Basle II accord
BASLE II UPDDATE
Will the latest delay sink Basle II?
BASLE II UPDATE
ORX loss database expected to start soon
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US Comptroller wants attractive advanced approaches to op risk
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UK regulator disappointed at latest Basel II delay
Britain’s principal financial watchdog, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), was “a little disappointed” at the latest delays to the Basel II banking Accord, a senior FSA official said today.
UK regulator will not shoe-horn insurers into banking regime
UK financial supervisors do not intend to 'shoe-horn' insurance companies into a regulatory regime designed for banks, a senior regulator said today.
EU postpones new bank rules following Basel II delay
The European Commission has postponed the coming into effect of its own plans for risk-based bank regulation by at least a year, following the further delay to the controversial Basel II bank Accord, Commission officials said.
Delay to QIS3 survey delays Basel II to 2006
Regulator determination to get a key survey of banks right was a major factor in the decision to postpone again the coming into effect of the complex Basel II banking Accord until late 2006, from an undetermined date in 2005, banking regulators said.
Counting the cost
Bank disintermediation
Hawke highlights "thorny issues" of Basel II
John Hawke, the US Comptroller of the Currency, this week said that “there are a number of thorny issues that remain to be worked out” in the Basel II bank capital adequacy Accord. Speaking at a conference held by the Institute of International Bankers…
Basel regulators still hoping for 2005 date
The Basel II bank capital adequacy Accord could still come into effect by 2005, although the date does hang in the balance, international regulatory sources said.
Changes afoot at rating agencies
Basel II
Basel II delay could help EU
A further delay in the coming-into-effect of the Basel II banking accord to 2006 might take the pressure off the European Union’s attempts to co-ordinate the timing of its own new banking rules, some political analysts said in late February.
Regulator hits back at Basel II critics
Much of the complexity for which the Basel II bank capital accord is criticised is the inevitable result of three highly desirable features of the pact - namely, risk sensitivity, wide applicability and the shifting of the task of risk measurement to…
Insurance companies - On the road to Basel III
UK regulators want to harmonise regulation of the financial services sector - and they have insurance companies in their sights.
The Basle II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
This summary has been updated to include the revisions to the Basle II op risk proposals contained in the Working Paper on the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk issued in September, 2001 and available on the Bank for International Settlements’…
Basel regulators still hope for 2005 date as doubts increase
The Basel II bank capital adequacy accord could still come into effect by 2005, even if quite late in that year, although the date very much hangs in the balance, international regulatory sources said in early March.
Regulators concentrate on key op risk issues for QIS3
Global banking regulators working on the operational risk aspects of the controversial Basle II banking accord are concentrating their efforts on some key issues as they prepare their part of the so-called QIS3 survey.
Changes afoot at rating agencies
Rating agencies are under fire once again, this time for failing to anticipate Enron’s bankruptcy. But they are looking to improve their methodology. What do the changes mean for banks that will have to rely on their ratings under Basel II?