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Trading book fears grow as rules enter home straight

The Basel Committee is aiming to wrap up its overhaul of trading book capital rules this year. Banks are worried about that – the treatment of liquidity risk is too harsh, the standardised approach is too complex, and the capital impact still too high, critics argue

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William Coen, Basel Committee: still looking to December 2015 deadline

The official line on long-awaited new trading book capital rules is that they will not be awaited for very much longer. Regulators will weigh up the findings of a new quantitative impact study (QIS), analyse comments on December's third consultative document, and then – hopefully – publish the final rules before the end of the year.

"The current plan is to keep to the December 2015 deadline

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