On 17 July 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) finalized revisions to the prudential framework for banks’ exposures to cryptoassets. The revisions largely introduced additional requirements relating to the...more
The Financial Stability Board (“FSB”) has published its report on 2023 Bank Failures: Preliminary lessons learnt for resolution which follows on from the report from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“BCBS”) on the...more
On July 27, 2023, US federal banking regulators issued proposals to (i) significantly revise the riskbased regulatory capital requirements for certain midsize and larger US banking organizations (the “Capital Proposal”) and...more
Open banking is an important driver of the fintech revolution. Regulators have recognised open banking as a means of introducing competition and innovation in the banking sector. Likewise, fintechs are seizing the...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a consultation paper on the “Introduction of guidelines on interaction and cooperation between prudential and anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published an overview report on the Pillar 2 supervisory review process and on the different practices that regulators and legislators in Basel member jurisdictions have adopted...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Standards has published a discussion paper on the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures. The discussion paper sets out the issues raised by the Task Force on Sovereign Exposures, which the...more
Because of the implementation of new regulatory requirements relating to both variation and initial margin for swaps, swap documentation for many market participants is about to become much more complicated....more
On October 15, 2015, BCBS issued its ninth progress report (BCBS 338) on BCBS members’ implementation of Basel II, Basel 2.5 and Basel III, as at the end of September 2015. The report focuses on the status of domestic...more
On March 18, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a “final” policy framework that establishes minimum global standards for margin...more
On July 2, 2013, the Federal Reserve Board approved a final rule implementing the Basel III regulatory capital reforms from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision as well as certain changes required by the Dodd-Frank Wall...more