Basel III
WHAT IS THIS? Basel III is a set of bank soundness rules drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in response to the financial crisis. It hikes the minimum amount of capital banks must hold, introduces new leverage and liquidity ratios, and limits the use of internal models.
The FRTB challenge: banks brace for further uncertainty
The widely anticipated implementation of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) hit another obstacle when the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision pushed back the roll-out by another year to January 2023. With different jurisdictions…
New FRTB timeline makes Europe’s reporting phase ‘obsolete’
European Commission pencils in capital requirements to start at the same time as reporting exercise – or even before
Basel turns attention to non-climate-related environment risks
Experts warn of over-complicated framework if nature-related risks are added prematurely
Basel crypto rules: bad for traders, good for risk managers?
Practitioners divided over potential bank capital treatment for assets with no intrinsic value
Credit risk & modelling – Special report 2021
This Risk special report provides an insight on the challenges facing banks in measuring and mitigating credit risk in the current environment, and the strategies they are deploying to adapt to a more stringent regulatory approach.
Rate of centrally cleared CDSs hits record high
Multi-name products drove increase in first half of 2021
EU’s Basel delay could cause problems for Japan
Asia Risk Congress: unaligned timetables creates difficulties for Japan's megabanks
EU’s Basel III delay invites all to play for time
The message not to dilute reforms got lost on the way from Frankfurt to Brussels
FRTB starts ‘tug of war’ between front and back offices
Risk USA: dealers face trade-off between accuracy of pricing models and level of capital charges
Commerzbank’s op RWAs rise €1.2bn on SA switch
Transition to new framework under Basel II pushes op risk to two-year high
Leaked EU proposals show FRTB divergence on carbon trading
EC takes up Isda call to cut standardised risk-weight; unclear if it applies to non-EU markets
Fed repo backstop won’t help intraday liquidity stress
Banks say lack of guidance on resolution plans means SRF may not halt liquidity hoarding behaviour
China, Turkey lead regulatory laggards on Basel III framework
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Japan and Korea made no progress at all since May 2020
Some hedge funds are financing trades for other hedge funds
After the Archegos collapse, hedge funds are competing to borrow money from a dwindling number of banks
IMA to retain large role in setting market risk capital post-FRTB
Gyrations over 2020 mean a bigger share of market risk requirements could be underpinned by internal models post-reform
Basel III heralds 41% op risk jump for EU banks
Capital requirements set to rise almost 88% for those G-Sibs that don’t currently use the AMA
Basel III output floor set to bind 25% of large banks
Risk-based capital requirements would constrain the largest share of international lenders
After Archegos, a bigger role for XVA desks?
Credit Suisse has stalled on call to expand XVA remit; others think it would have helped, but disagree on how
Basel III capital shortfall shrinks to €8bn
G-Sibs responsible for 77% of the aggregate deficit
European banks set for 17.6% capital hike under Basel III
Output floor expected to push Tier 1 capital requirements up 7.3% alone, latest BCBS monitoring report shows
EC expected to apply output floor at group level only
‘Parallel stacks’ proposal unlikely to appear in first draft of CRR III, due next month
Santander’s CVA charge jumps 94% in Q2
Among the other EU systemic banks, higher capital requirements also at SocGen, ING, Crédit Agricole and UniCredit
Deutsche sees equity RWAs jump 29% on new EU rules
CRR II requires banks to calculate exposure they would incur to honour guaranteed returns on investment products
Internal model revamp adds €3.2bn to Commerz’s CCR RWAs in Q2
IMM update drove most of 37.8% increase in total CCR RWAs