Basel Committee For Banking Supervision

• John Kavanagh

Banking regulators should strengthen their supervisory effectiveness in the wake of this year’s US and European bank failures, says the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. read more

• Ian Rogers

APRA plans to remove ‘pillar 3’ disclosure requirements for most banks and ADIs from next year. read more

• John Kavanagh

Banking regulators are moving closer to including climate-related capital and liquidity requirements in their prudential standards, following the release of climate risk management guidelines by the B.. read more

• John Kavanagh

ADIs’ capital requirements for large, concentrated exposures will increase under a revised capital adequacy standard that takes effect next year. read more

• John Kavanagh

APRA is sticking with its approach to capital buffers, but it has given some ground on capital requirements for higher risk mortgage lending. read more

• John Kavanagh

The cryptoasset market has reached sufficient size that banking regulators are starting to look at the prudential standards for banks’ exposures to the asset class. read more

• John Kavanagh

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has put authorised deposit-taking institutions on notice that it expects them to be fully compliant with its revised capital framework when it takes effe.. read more

• John Kavanagh

For some time now, the Reserve Bank has been telling issuers in the capital markets that the one-month bank bill swap rate is not as robust or liquid as other BBSW tenors, and alternative benchmarks s.. read more

• Ian Rogers

The counter-cyclical capital buffer will be 1.0 per cent by default for Australian banks from 2023. There will be an increase in capital ratios overall, and maybe no need to tap the market for capital.. read more

• George Lekakis

The Customer Owned Banking Association is intensifying its campaign to secure regulatory capital relief for Australian credit unions and mutual banks after lobbying senior Basel Committee officials in.. read more

• George Lekakis

The chief advocate for the world's credit union movement says that recent reforms clearing the way for Australian customer-owned institutions to raise capital from external sources have set a benchmar.. read more

• Banking Day staff

Wayne Byres will serve a further five year term as chair of APRA. read more

• Banking Day staff

The US Federal Reserve is proposing to cut the amount of capital the US's largest banks are required to hold by revising the way a key leverage ratio is calculated. read more

• George Lekakis

CBA's valuation of its minority holding in a Shanghai-listed bank is at odds with the market value of that bank's share price shares, which have been on a sustained slide for a year. read more

• Banking Day staff

After years of lobbying against potentially being required to hold?billions of dollars extra under new capital requirements for market?risk rules, banks have won concessions from global regulators. read more

• Banking Day staff

A report by S&P Global Ratings has re-iterated that the Financial Stability Board's crisis management and resolution reforms for banks that emphasise bail-in and not bailout are currently under co.. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

As another banking inquiry gets underway, Rob Goudswaard, chief executive officer of CUA, has pointed out that at least one has been of benefit to his sector. read more

• George Lekakis

Australian banks will be given additional incentives to compete for conventional owner-occupier home loans as opposed to investment and "non-standard" mortgages under a new capital risk regime propose.. read more

• George Lekakis

Under a proposed new simplified prudential framework APRA has indicated it will provide relief to small deposit takers from much of the complexity of Basel 3 compliance. read more

• George Lekakis

A war for small business borrowers appears to have erupted between Australia's major banks after Westpac revealed a sharp increase in SME lending in the December quarter. read more