Basel’s Rogers: little evidence capital buffers have failed

Carolyn Rogers: no concrete evidence the capital buffer regime isn’t working as intended

Samuel Wilkes
@wilkkes
16 Oct 2020

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The secretary general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Carolyn Rogers, has told an online conference there is little evidence the capital buffer regime isn’t working as intended, in terms of banks being able to accumulate buffers in a boom, and then run them down to maintain lending during a downturn.

“My concern is that we have this narrative going around that the capital buffer regime isn’t working, but I have yet to see some concrete evidence of this,” said Rogers, speaking on

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