The federal banking agencies announced their support for the conclusion of efforts to reform the international bank capital standards initiated in response to the global financial crisis. The Governors and Heads of Supervision and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Thursday announced the finalization of the reforms to the “Basel III” agreement on bank capital standards.  With this agreement, the Basel Committee will bring to conclusion the international reforms initiated in response to the global financial crisis.
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The Governing Council decided on changes to the collateral eligibility criteria applicable to unsecured bank bonds, i.e. unsecured debt instruments issued by credit institutions, investment firms or entities closely linked to them. A press release providing more detailed information on the amended criteria, which will take effect from the entry into force of the regular update of the General Documentation (expected in the first quarter of 2018). You can read more decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB here on our website.
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The Financial Stability Institute (FSI), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) held their 13th High-level Meeting for the Arab Region in Abu Dhabi. The meeting was hosted by the AMF and attended by about 170 participants representing various central banks, supervisory authorities and financial institutions in the region as well as senior officials from public and private organisations from around the world.
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There is a clear need for the EU to develop a more efficient system for exchanging information on the criminal records of non-EU citizens. At the same time, any proposal to update the current system must ensure consistency with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Lisbon Treaty and fully respect data protection principles, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said today, as he published his Opinion on the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on ECRIS-TCN.
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Nordea has joined the we.trade consortium as founding partner. The consortium is, in conjunction with IBM, developing a platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) that aims at making domestic and cross-border commerce easier, safer and more efficient for companies. It is the first such blockchain-based trade finance platform, marking a milestone in the practical adoption of DLT in the financial industry. In entering the we.trade initiative, Nordea joins Banco Santander, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Société Générale and UniCredit as a founder member of the consortium and extending its geographical coverage into the Nordic markets.
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The Basel Committee’s oversight body, the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), has endorsed the outstanding Basel III post-crisis regulatory reforms. “The endorsement of the Basel III reforms represents a major milestone that will make the capital framework more robust and improve confidence in banking systems,” said Mario Draghi, Chairman of the GHOS and President of the ECB.
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The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) approved the consolidation of the Eurosystem’s real-time gross settlement system TARGET2 and the securities settlement platform TARGET2-Securities (T2S), and the development of a Eurosystem Collateral Management System. Both projects will modernise existing systems and increase overall efficiency.
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Since November 21, Polish has become the sixth language on Risk & Compliance Platform Europe. The platform itself was launched at the end of 2014.
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Recent disclosure of the Governance Committees meeting papers of the Financial Cunduct Autority (FCA) under the Freedom of Information Act has led to speculation about the reason that the FCA did not publish the full Skilled Person’s Report following the independent review of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) treatment of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers transferred to its Global Restructuring Group (GRG). It has been suggested that FCA chose not to publish the report because they were afraid of legal action being taken against them.
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