Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Bank for International Settlements, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

In October 2004 the Basel Committee issued Consolidated KYC Risk Management.

There has been commendable progress on the Basel 3 capital requirements for banks, with 25 of 27 Basel Committee members having issued final rules.

1 The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is a committee of banking supervisory authorities that was established

In February 2003, the Basel Committee issued General Guide to Account Opening and Customer Identification.

The Bank for International Settlements and the Basel Committee are better placed, but a fundamental reform is needed to broaden their membership and to avoid a major problem of the Basel Committee its lack of representation of developing countries.

Better than Basel

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The recent agreement by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on a new capital adequacy framework is another positive step.

Background The Basel Convention

The Basel Committee, in its Customer due diligence for banks (CDD) paper of October 2001, issued prudential guidance in this area.

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For instance, we know that the global capital adequacy requirements produced by the Basel Committee reflect overwhelmingly the influence of large banks.

For example, the Basel Convention's Technical Cooperation Trust Fund is managed by an existing entity, the Basel Secretariat.

The Bank of England s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) said that the target should be 7 of risk weighted assets under Basel III definitions.

Members of the Basel Convention Open ended Working Group and the Secretariat of the Basel Convention could provide relevant expertise.

The last big idea the Basel committee had was that large banks should calibrate their capital requirement based on their own internal risk models.

In 1988 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision1 issued Prevention of the Criminal Use of the Banking System for the purpose of money laundering.

Such as the October 2004 standard of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on consolidated know your customer risk management (www.bis.org pub bcbs110.pdf).

Consider the Basel III international banking standards.

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(c) Basel Convention Coordinating Centre (BCCC) Uruguay

The Basel Convention Secretariat manages the Fund.

Meanwhile, agreeing on Basel 3 banking standards in just two years is commendable, especially as Basel 2 took a decade to negotiate.

There is a strong argument for going further, and subsuming the standard setters the Basel Committee, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, etc. in a single body. They could be co located in a regulatory Tower of Babel in Basel.

Elsewhere, various versions of the Basel 1 and Basel 2 accords on international banking standards are in operation, sometimes with ad hoc supplements.

These regulations incorporate the minimum standards of 25 Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision, which is being promulgated by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, BIS.

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It also seemed to violate earlier agreements to cooperate with other nations through the G 20, the Financial Stability Board, and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

More worryingly, Basel 3 retains, if not deepens, biases in the Basel 2 rules against bank lending to developing countries, such as for trade finance.

Smarter capital requirements better Basel rules aren t the answer.

A version from the canton of Basel also exists.

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The problem is that the Basel capital rules whether Basel I, II, or III are of no help in separating the weak banks from the sound ones.

(p) Best practices such as those compiled by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

For example, the Basel Convention Technical Cooperation Trust Fund, which relies on voluntary contributions, has been able to provide only limited and generally inadequate resources, leading Basel Convention parties to begin the process of determining the feasibility of appropriate and predictable financial mechanisms for the Basel Convention.

The nearest big cities are Paris, Nancy, Strasbourg, Basel, and Dijon.

Paragraph 1 of Article 14 of the Basel Convention states that

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has recently come out in favor of such regulations, and the United States House of Representatives has voted to require regulators to set compensation rules.

Mexico, for example, recently adopted ahead of schedule the changes in capital requirements for banks recommended by the Third Basel Accord (Basel III), in order to reduce leverage and increase stability.

Even the new Basel 3 banking standards have been diluted and postponed.

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