News Topic: Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Regulators said they will allow banks to deduct Treasury securities — a source of market volatility in the pandemic — from the net stable funding ratio on the same day they provided relief from auditing requirements. ... Read full article

The industry is warning regulators putting the finishing touches on the Net Stable Funding Ratio that the measure could exacerbate volatile market events like the spring selloff of Treasury securities. ... Read full article

The revised recommendations are one of the last remaining pieces left to finish in the Basel III capital accords. ... Read full article

Having the Federal Reserve Board’s bank supervision chief at the helm the Financial Stability Board cements U.S. leadership on cross-border regulation. ... Read full article

The international standards-setting body is weathering the infatuation with isolationism in the U.S. and elsewhere better than expected. ... Read full article

In his last major speech as the agency’s No. 2, Thomas Hoenig said it would be a “serious policy mistake” to relax measures such as the supplementary leverage ratio, but he was more open to regulatory relief in other areas. ... Read full article

Banks that spent years lobbying against billions of dollars of new capital requirements are being rewarded for their efforts. ... Read full article

The new standards are aimed at reducing the variability between regulatory treatments of risk-weighted assets. ... Read full article

The most important policy question facing banking, brokers and insurance companies is putting a framework in place that very quickly defines data ownership rights across the financial value chain. ... Read full article

The Dodd-Frank Act’s $50 billion threshold for determining which banks are systemically important should be scrapped and replaced with an indicator test, according to the Office of Financial Research. ... Read full article

Andreas Dombret, head of regulation at Germany’s central bank, fears entering “the next stage of … an eternal cycle” of crises as countries begin dialing back regulations. ... Read full article

EU-based banks are citing a U.S. Treasury Department report as reason to slow-walk international regulatory standards. ... Read full article