Compendium of Standards

• 1 September 1998 Enhancing Bank Transparency

  This paper discusses the role of information in effective market discipline and effective banking supervision, recommending that banks provide timely information to market participants and that supervisors focus their efforts on encouraging high-quality public disclosure at reasonable cost (September 1998).

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): BCBS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision

• 1 September 1998 International Disclosure Standards for Cross­border Offerings and Initial Listings by Foreign Issuers

  These international disclosure standards reflect a consensus among securities regulators in the major capital markets as to the type of information that should be disclosed in cross-border offerings and listings of equity securities. The standards cover fundamental disclosure topics such as the description of the issuers' business, results of operations, management and the securities it plans to offer or list.

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

• 1 November 1997 Principles for Record Keeping,Collection of Information, Enforcement Powers and Mutual Cooperation to Improve the Enforcement of Securities and Futures Laws,

  The document sets out requirements for regulators on record keeping, collection of information, enforcement powers and mutual cooperation.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IOSCO Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Accounting and Auditing, Cooperation among Authorities, Legal Framework, Transparency and Disclosure

• 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