Risk 25 firms of the future: Basel Committee

Implementing rules and filling in gaps

Stefan Ingves, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Stefan Ingves, the governor of the Sveriges Riksbank – Sweden’s central bank – and chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, won’t be rushed.

He says it’s too early to tell whether banks are retreating from far-flung branch networks as a result of Basel III (see pages 4-8). It’s also too soon to say whether the country assessments being implemented by the committee – its first attempt to judge whether member countries are following the rules they helped write – will judge the US to