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Fed names Parkinson as banking supervision head
Patrick Parkinson has taken over as director of the banking supervision and regulation division at the US Federal Reserve Board. He was previously the deputy director of the research and statistics division....
US regulators may begin imposing regular stress tests on the banks they supervise, formalising the one-off tests conducted earlier this year under the Supervisory Capital Assessment Programme (Scap). ...
Top tier US banks required to implement the Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) to operational risk under Basel II are collaborating to reduce divergence in their op risk approaches. Those former investment...
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Fed names bank supervision head
Patrick Parkinson has taken over as director of the banking supervision and regulation division at the US Federal Reserve Board. He was previously the deputy director of the research and statistics division. Parkinson has worked in the research and...
The liquidity lifeline
The Basel Committee intends to introduce internationally binding liquidity standards, to include both a requirement for a liquid assets buffer and longer-term structural funding constraints. How will the measures be calculated and what will the implications...
Fed decision to extend TALF scheme boosts recovery hopes for US securitisation...
By prolonging the lending facility until March 2010 for ABS and June 2010 for CMBS, central bank aims to increase issuance and restore investor confidence in the asset class. The US securitisation market has seen a dramatic revival from its fragile...
FSA is model of bad regulatory consolidation, US Senate told
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) is a good example of how not to consolidate several financial supervisors into a single prudential banking regulator, the US Senate has heard. In a hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and...
Bernanke suffers ID theft
WASHINGTON, DC - Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke is the latest high-profile person to become the victim of identity theft. A bag belonging to Bernanke's wife containing her credit cards, social security card and chequebook was stolen...
World Bank calls for US Treasury to have more regulatory clout
The US Department of the Treasury, and not the Federal Reserve, should be handed greater regulatory authority, says World Bank president Robert Zoellick. Speaking in Washington, DC ahead of next week's annual meetings of the World Bank and the International...
Central banks following a cautious exit strategy
Decisions by the Federal Reserve and other central banks this week to extend asset purchase and liquidity schemes signal that they are staying cautious about the strength of the recovery, despite a summer of good news from the markets and the economy...
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