The Basel III capital framework is too complex and fails to provide enough resilience in some critical areas, a paper published by the Bank for International Settlements argues.

The Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has finalized a proposed policy that would place a 2% limit on banks’ Tier 1 capital held in bitcoin. This comes ...

ZURICH, May 31 (Reuters) - New bank capital rules would likely not hit growth and banks are exaggerating their potential effects, an economist at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in ...

In a candid assessment, the chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Erik Thedéen, has acknowledged that the global rules governing banks’ ...

Banks will have to disclose cryptocurrency holdings under new plans floated Thursday, as international regulators partly blamed banking collapses on the sudden popularity of crypto. The Basel ...

Basel Committee faces calls to reform strict stablecoin capital rules as U.S., U.K., and Japan resist current framework.

Capital requirements for banks set by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), which crafts banking standards, create a “chokepoint,” designed to throttle the growth of the crypto industry, ...

In 2023, US regulators proposed the "Basel Endgame," a long-awaited overhaul of bank capital requirements. The proposal aimed to bring the United States into compliance with international standards ...

Banks across the globe lowered their exposure to certain cryptocurrencies by 43.6% over the past year, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Tuesday. Total exposure to cryptocurrencies – ...

The oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) said on Friday it has appointed Tiff Macklem as its new chair, effective immediately. April 1 (Reuters) - The oversight body of ...

The BIS’ Basel Committee introduced a finalized proposal for limits to the amount of Tier 1 capital banks can hold in bitcoin. The Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) Basel Committee on Banking ...