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Collateral damage: Capital proposals threaten Europe's ABS market
The European Central Bank wants to promote securitisation, but critics of the Basel Committee’s proposed new capital rules fear the extra burden will snuff out the European market altogether. The stage...
International definitions of banks' trading book and banking book still woolly, keynote speaker Charles Taylor tells conference
The Basel Committee’s newly formed standards implementation group is charged with monitoring how banks are adhering to the requirements of the Basel III accord. The chair of the group, Ryozo Himino,...
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Q&A: Ryozo Himino on Basel's RWA probe and the need for minimum standards...
The Basel Committee is keeping an eye on Basel III implementation, led by its standards implementation group. Nick Sawyer talks to Ryozo Himino, chair of the group, about the monitoring of timelines, consistency with Basel minimums and the investigation...
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JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon doesn’t seem like the kind of person that spends a lot of time regretting the fights he picks, but by inviting bank capital modelling to step outside, he has started something that may not end the way he hoped. Initially,...
Credit Suisse and UBS on Basel 2.5: Half a world away
Swiss banks had to switch over to Basel 2.5 at the start of 2011, but they are still wrestling with elements of the new trading book rules – from educating traders on the impact, to working out sovereign bond risks. And differences have already emerged...
Basel 2.5: regulators still wrestling with Dodd-Frank clash
The Dodd-Frank Act means elements of Basel’s new trading book rules cannot be implemented in the US – although supervisors claim it will only be a temporary reprieve. A review of the rules has also been delayed. Mark Pengelly reports
Citi’s Gerspach: $12.7 billion accounting switch was legit
Switch of assets to trading book and subsequent sales meant to limit Basel III capital impact, says Citi's CFO
Sovereign risk weights under threat
Bank capital rules continue to regard government bonds as risk-free under many conditions. If politicians can’t convince them otherwise, regulators may have to change the rules – but could they do it without causing bond market mayhem? Duncan Wood...
Back to the drawing board for trading book rules
The Basel Committee is preparing to conduct a fundamental review of its trading book rules in 2011, even before a package of changes to the market risk framework has come into force. What are regulators trying to achieve and how is the industry responding?...
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