1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: Plenary December 2024 - Status: Final - The FSB has set out the outcomes of its Plenary that met on 3 and 4 December. Points of...more
Resolution assessments: PRA PS10/21 on amendments to reporting and disclosure dates - Following its consultation in CP19/20, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement, PS10/21, on...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has opened two consultations on revisions to the Basel III Pillar 3 disclosure requirements, one related to market risk disclosures and one on sovereign exposures disclosures....more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published revisions to its standards for leverage ratio capital requirements. The revisions relate to: (i) calculations of leverage ratios for "client-cleared" derivatives; and...more
Following a consultation in March 2018, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a finalized technical amendment to the consolidated Pillar 3 disclosure technical standard that was issued in March 2017. The...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a consolidated and enhanced Pillar 3 disclosure framework standard. The Basel Committee announced in June 2014 that it was undertaking a review of Pillar 3. In January...more
Act 188 Plans On Hold as New Chemical Bill is Introduced - Nearly three years after the legislature passed a law to regulate children’s products containing chemicals of high concern, a web site intended to inform the...more
Reporting Leases on the Balance Sheet - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) announced on Jan. 13, 2016, a new – and materially different – manner of accounting for leases. The new standard, IFRS 16...more
Agencies Apply Increased Leverage Ratio to Large U.S. Banks - On April 8, the Fed, FDIC and OCC adopted the final rule to increase the leverage ratio for the largest U.S. banks. The final rule applies to U.S. bank...more
On June 26, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“Basel Committee”) published a Consultative Document that proposes specific leverage capital requirements, and related disclosure requirements (the “Proposal”), that...more