Basel III aims to stabilize global banking, reduce risk, and impact financial markets, ensuring a more resilient economic ...

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WASHINGTON — The winter of 2016-17 was a dark time for the Basel Committee. Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump had ushered in an era of isolationism and ...

The capital standards adopted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision have wrongly taken precedence over the authority invested in Congress to legislate and determine the appropriate capital ...

Proposed leverage ratio amendments have stopped short of providing a fix for the additive treatment of client collateral received by futures commission merchants (FCMs), which banks argue renders the ...

Proposals to drastically limit banks' ability to use internal risk-based models to calculate credit risk capital will encourage lending to less creditworthy counterparties, trade associations have ...

For the last decade, many of us—consultants, journalists, legislators, and regulators—have spent countless hours identifying the causes of the 2008 financial crisis and those who were responsible. Yet ...

According to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, cryptocurrencies should have some of the strictest capital requirements, due to their risks. Although banks’ face limited exposure to the ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, in an effort to increase transparency and oversight in the banking sector, wants banks to disclose their crypto asset holdings. What Happened: The committee ...

The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) approved today the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision’s revisions to the market risk framework. The Basel Committee (BCBS) ...