American Banker January 13, 2014 It has become an old refrain. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposes guidelines to improve banking sector safety. Banks and their lobbies with vast resources mightily fight back. The Basel Committee – which, due to its large, diverse membership, is highly politicized – weakens its proposed guidelines...Read More … [Read more...] about Basel’s New Leverage Ratio: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
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More Transparency Needed in Risk-Weighted Assets
American Banker July 23, 2013 The Basel Committee recently published for the first time an analysis of risk-weighted assets of banks' credit risk. In doing so, the committee confirmed the worst kept secret in the industry: there is significant variability in banks' RWAs especially between large U.S. and European financial firms...Read More … [Read more...] about More Transparency Needed in Risk-Weighted Assets