Archives - BCBS - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
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19 May 2009 Monitoring Group announces adoption of formal Charter
The Monitoring Group, a group of international regulatory bodies and related organizations committed to advancing the public interest in areas related to international audit quality, announces the adoption of a formal Charter. -
12 May 2009 Due diligence and transparency regarding cover payment messages related to cross-border wire transfers
This document describes the supervisory expectations for the information that must be included in payment messages related to cover payments, the various mechanisms that must be used to ensure that complete and accurate information has been included in such messages, and the use that should be made of the information for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism purposes. -
2 April 2009 Joint FSF-BCBS Working Group on Bank Capital Issues - Reducing procyclicality arising from the bank capital framework
This note sets out recommendations to address the potential procyclicality of the regulatory capital framework for internationally active banks. Some of these recommendations are focused on mitigating the cyclicality of the minimum capital requirement, while maintaining an appropriate degree of risk sensitivity. Other measures are intended to introduce countercyclical elements into the framework. The recommendations […] -
1 April 2009 Supervisory guidance for assessing banks' financial instrument fair value practices
The principles in this document promote strong governance processes around valuations; the use of reliable inputs and diverse information sources; the articulation and communication of valuation uncertainty to internal and external stakeholders; the allocation of sufficient banking and supervisory resources to the valuation process; independent verification and validation processes; consistency in valuation practices for risk management and reporting purposes, where possible; and strong supervisory oversight around bank valuation practices. -
25 September 2008 Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision
This document expanded the 2000 Sound Practices for Managing Liquidity in Banking Organisations in a number of key areas by taking into account financial market developments as well as lessons learned from the turmoil. -
1 July 2008 Credit Risk Transfer
The documents review credit risk transfer (CRT) activity on the basis of a number of interviews and discussions with market participants, and include recommendations to improve risk management practices, disclosure, and supervisory approaches for CRT. -
1 November 2007 Principles for home-host supervisory cooperation and allocation mechanisms in the context of Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA)
This document sets out principles related to two important topics in the implementation of the Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA) for operational risk under Basel II. -
1 September 2006 The IRB Use Test: Background and Implementation
This document presents a number of principles that are intended to support banks and supervisors in interpreting the key use test provisions of the Basel II Framework. -
29 August 2006 High-Level Principles for Business Continuity
The document outlines business continuity principles that apply to industry participants and financial authorities. -
14 June 2006 Supervisory guidance on the use of the fair value option for financial instruments by banks
This document was issued to provide supervisors with guidance on the prudential supervision of banks' implementation of the fair value option.