Archives - BCBS - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
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24 September 2012 Supervision of Financial Conglomerates
The Joint Forum's final report on Principles for the Supervision of Financial Conglomerates provides a set of principles which supersedes the compendium of principles on this topic developed in 1999 and published in 2001 by the Joint Forum ('the 1999 Principles'). -
28 June 2012 The internal audit function in banks
This revised supervisory guidance for assessing the effectiveness of the internal audit function in banks forms part of the Committee's ongoing efforts to address bank supervisory issues and enhance supervision through guidance that encourages sound practices within banks. It takes into account developments in supervisory practices and in banking organisations and incorporates lessons drawn from the recent financial crisis. -
1 June 2011 Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk
The document outlines a set of principles that provide a framework for the effective management and supervision of operational risk, for use by banks and supervisory authorities when evaluating operational risk management policies and practices. It updates the February 2003 Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk. -
1 June 2011 Operational Risk - Supervisory Guidelines for the Advanced Measurement Approaches
The document identifies supervisory guidelines associated with the development and maintenance of key internal governance, data and modelling frameworks underlying the Advanced Measurement Approaches for operational risk. -
1 December 2010 Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer
This document serves as a supplement to the requirements set out in the Basel III rules text. In addition to providing guidance for national authorities, this document should help banks understand and anticipate the buffer decisions in the jurisdictions to which they have credit exposures. -
1 December 2010 Sound practices for backtesting counterparty credit risk models - final document
This guidance sets out supervisory expectations as well as recommendations to strengthen the backtesting of internal assessments of counterparty credit risk exposures. -
28 October 2010 Recognising the risk-mitigating impact of insurance in operational risk modelling
This document clarifies supervisory expectations on the range of industry AMA practices while promoting increased convergence in operational risk management. -
18 August 2010 BCBS Report on An assessment of the long-term economic impact of stronger capital and liquidity requirements
This report provides an analysis of the long-term economic impact (LEI) of the Basel Committee's proposed capital and liquidity reforms. It assesses the economic benefits and costs of stronger capital and liquidity regulation in terms of their impact on output. The main benefits of a stronger financial system reflect a lower probability of banking crises […] -
18 March 2010 Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group
The Basel Committee's Cross-border Bank Resolution Group (CBRG) developed the Recommendations as a product of its stocktaking of legal and policy frameworks for cross-border crises resolutions and its follow-up work to identify the lessons learned from the financial crisis which began in August 2007.