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Basel Committee consults on interest rate risk in the banking book
June 8th, 2015
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued a consultative document on the risk management, capital treatment and supervision of interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB). This consultative document expands upon and is intended to ultimately replace the ...
Basel Committee and IOSCO revised implementation date for non-cleared derivatives margin rules
March 23rd, 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) published the following statement: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) released revisions to the framework for margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. [The ...
Basel III monitoring results published by the Basel Committee
March 4th, 2015
The Basel Committee today published the results of its latest Basel III monitoring exercise. The study is based on the rigorous reporting process set up by the Committee to periodically review the implications of the Basel III standards for banks. ...
PwC comments on EU’s proposed changes to finalise Basel III and start implementing Basel IV
November 25th, 2016
Earlier this week , the European Commission published its first proposals for revised rules to calibrate capital and liquidity requirements – in the form of a Directive and a Regulation (“CRD V”& “CRR II”), as well as amendments to ...
Presentation of the ECB Annual Report 2015 to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament
April 8th, 2016
Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB presented the ECB’s 2015 Annual Report. Below is the presentation as it was published: Mr Chairman, Honourable Members of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to ...
Financial Policy Committee statement from its policy meeting, 23 March 2016
March 29th, 2016
1. The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) assesses the outlook for financial stability by identifying the risks faced by the financial system and weighing them against the resilience of the system. In doing so, its aim is to ...
EBA publishes results of the CRDIV-CRR/Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2015
March 3rd, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its ninth report of the CRDIV-CRR/Basel III monitoring exercise on the European banking system. This exercise, run in parallel with the one conducted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) at ...
Deutsche Bank Attacks Basel Plan’s Threat to Repo Market
April 30th, 2014
Global banks from Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) to Credit Suisse Group AG (CS) are urging international regulators to rethink a liquidity rule they say risks harming the market for repurchase agreements and pushing up governments’ borrowing costs. Draft plans ...
Banking faces seismic changes
July 13th, 2021
The role of commercial banks in the global economy is changing, with lending to governments and their agencies now more important than lending to goods and services industries. It is a trend which is due to continue. The ...
The end of the LBMA is nigh
May 20th, 2021
Basel 3 is on course to regulate the LBMA out of existence. And with it will go all the associated arbitrage business and position-taking on Comex, because most bullion bank trading desks will cease to exist. The only ...
