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| Subject: Via Anarcho-Capitalist Forum: Basel cools on global bank capital build Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:32 pm | |
| Global banks will need to lift the amount of capital held against their trading books but the increase required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is less than originally proposed.
This is further evidence that global regulators are moderating the imposition of more strenuous capital requirements on banks as governments focus on encouraging lending to boost economic growth.
The Basel committee on Thursday night released revised minimum capital requirements for market risk, revealing that the average global bank will need to increase the amount of high-quality capital against trading books by a mean of 40 per cent by January 2019. A core component of Basel 3, the reforms are designed to make sure banks' models more accurately capture the risks assumed by their trading desks.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/basel-cools-on-global-bank-capital-build-20160114-gm5qku.html#ixzz3xGT8mV8J |
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