Compendium of Standards

• 1 October 1997 Tokyo Communiqué on Supervision of Commodity Futures Markets ("Tokyo Communiqué")

  The document sets out an agreement among regulators on commodity futures markets' oversight.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IOSCO Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Cooperation among Authorities, Market Regulation

• 1 September 1997 Model Memorandum of Understanding

  This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is designed to facilitate mutual assistance and the exchange of information on insurance matters between regulatory bodies in different jurisdictions.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IAIS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Cooperation among Authorities, Prudential Supervision and Oversight

• 1 October 1996 The Supervision of Cross-border Banking

  This Report is prepared in collaboration with the Offshore Group of Banking Supervisors with respect to the implementation of the Concordat. It provides twenty-nine recommendations aimed at reducing impediments to the effective supervision of cross-border banking.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): BCBS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Cooperation among Authorities, Prudential Supervision and Oversight

• 29 March 1996 Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)

  The SDDS serves to guide countries that have, or that might seek, access to international capital markets in the dissemination of economic and financial data to the public.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IMF Policy Area(s): Macroeconomic Policy and Data Transparency Topic(s): Central Banking, Statistics, Transparency and Disclosure

• 1 July 1992 Minimum Standards for the Supervision of International Banking Groups and their Cross-border Establishments

  The four minimum standards set out in this document underline and further develop the main concepts of the Concordat with regard to the supervision of cross-border banking.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): BCBS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Cooperation among Authorities, Prudential Supervision and Oversight

• 1 September 1991 Principles of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)

  The Principles contained in this report provide a blueprint for use by securities and futures regulatory authorities in developing MoUs with their foreign counterparts. The Principles set high standards and goals to be incorporated into MOUs in a broad range of securities and futures matters.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IOSCO Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Cooperation among Authorities

• 4 July 1988 International convergence of capital measurement and capital standards

  This document is the original text of the so-called Basel Capital Accord, which sets down the agreement among the G-10 central banks to apply common minimum capital standards to their banking industries, to be achieved by end-year 1992. The standards are almost entirely addressed to credit risk, the main risk incurred by banks.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): BCBS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Basel I/II/III, Risk Management

• 1 May 1983 Principles for the Supervision of Banks' Foreign Establishments (the Concordat)

  This Report sets out principles governing the supervision of banks' foreign establishments by home and host banking supervisory authorities. It deals exclusively with their responsibilities for monitoring the prudential conduct and soundness of the business of banks' foreign establishments (May 1983).

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): BCBS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Cooperation among Authorities, Prudential Supervision and Oversight