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The International Monetary Fund has listed a range of charges it says banks could pay to help limit systemic liquidity risk in the banking system. In its latest Global Financial Stability Review, part.. read more

First it was Switzerland; now two more European nations may push banks to tighten their capital holdings beyond that required by the Basel III framework. read more

HSBC chairman Douglas Flint has declared he wants the Basel Committee to designate more than 80 banks around the world as "SIFIs" - systemically important financial institutions. read more

Australia's exports of financial services fell again in 2009-10, and have now fallen by eight per cent in three years, new figures show. read more

In making his first RBA board appointments, Treasurer Wayne Swan says he is creating "a very good blend of experience and renewal". read more

New RBA board member John Edwards has documented his economic views extensively. In 2006, his best-known economics work, The Quiet Boom, he was one of the first to observe that global economic trends.. read more

A new inquiry into the Australian financial system remains possible after a spokesman for the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, refused to rule it out on Friday. read more

Federal Treasury was seeking to focus the Government on Australia's bond market liquidity challenge within days of the federal election, newly released material shows. read more

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and its governor, Alan Bollard, have raised doubts over the usefulness of the countercyclical buffer proposed under the Basel III global banking framework. read more

Global financial regulators are considering creating several classes of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) in a rule change that could impose higher capital requirements on Austra.. read more