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Basel III

May 2020

  • The sun setting behind the European Central Bank and the city skyline in Frankfurt, Germany

    Project Syndicate economists
    Lack of international cooperation will hinder economic recovery

    Howard Davies
    There has been no consistency to the regulatory changes during the coronavirus crisis

September 2017

  • Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel

    Project Syndicate economists
    Can Macron and Merkel agree on how to fix the eurozone?

    Barry Eichengreen
    With a dynamic new leader in France and a fresh mandate in Germany, there would be a chance to correct monetary union’s flaws

December 2016

  • A man in a Donald Trump mask and a toy gun swims during the Christmas Cup swimming race in Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

    Project Syndicate economists
    Banking standards: treacherous political waters lie ahead

    Howard Davies
    The system has been safer since the Basel III regulations, but tensions are high between the US and the eurozone – which both have their own preoccupations

January 2015

  • Customers queue during the bank run on Northern Rock in 2007.

    Finance
    Banking in the digital age: the failure of financial regulation

    The enormous shifts in the world of finance have revolutionised every aspect of our lives, but while financial regulation remains stuck in the industrial age, the dysfunctional system will remain

September 2013

  • Angela Merkel

    Project Syndicate economists
    Eurozone crisis: can the centre hold?

    Nouriel Roubini

    Nouriel Roubini: The patient may appear to be on the mend. But with chill winds blowing in from the European periphery, the euro is far from safe

January 2013

  • Mervyn King at the Bank for International Settlements press conference

    Business blog
    Banks get new year's boost as liquidity rules relaxed

  • Stefan Ingves and Mervyn King

    Banks win concessions and time on liquidity rules

September 2012

  • Santander bank in Holborn

    Basel III would have required banks to find extra £299bn, last year

    New rules for world's banks to hold more capital come into force in 2019, with a target of 7% of risk weighted assets

May 2012

  • Bob Diamond

    Barclays to sell 20% stake in BlackRock

    Bank selling £3.8bn stake in US fund management group as it tries to boost shareholder returns and meet new banking rules

April 2012

  • Christine Lagarde

    IMF chief Christine Lagarde in last-ditch struggle to raise funds

    Fresh fears emerge that eruption of financial crisis will leave International Monetary Fund short of emergency cash

February 2012

  • Bank of England

    Banking reforms should not be diluted, Bank of England official warns

    A senior Bank of England official has made clear that the UK should not water down international rules intended to reform the banking system

November 2011

  • Bank Of England

    Business blog
    Bank lobbying tactics 'intellectually dishonest', says FPC member

    Jill Treanor: Robert Jenkins, who sits on the Bank of England's financial policy committee, argues banks can reinforce balance sheets without cutting business loans

June 2011

  • Paul Volcker

    Carne Ross on power and nations
    Basel III: business as usual for bankers

    Carne Ross

    Carne Ross: Successful lobbying – or blackmailing – by banks means that financial regulation to prevent another crash is too weak to work

May 2011

  • UBS

    UBS may move investment bank to UK to avoid Swiss capital regime

    Reports in US suggest Swiss regulators want UBS and Credit Suisse either to hold much more capital or relocate parts of their business to lessen risk to Switzerland's taxpayers

March 2011

  • Madrid - passers by in front of Bank of Spain building

    Spain's Banco Base seeks double estimated bailout

    Banco Base alarms markets by calling for €2.9bn from Bank of Spain's restructuring fund and abandoning plans to sell stake to investors

February 2011

  • Nils Pratley

    Viewpoint column
    Diamond's double – is it doable?

    Nils Pratley
    Barclays' chief has set himself the bold target of nearly doubling the bank's return on capital to 13%. He's got his work cut out

January 2011

  • John Vickers Independent Commission On Banking

    Banking commission will consider breaking up biggest banks

    But Sir John Vickers, the chairman of the independent review, refuses to condemn 'casino' investment banking in much-anticipated speech

December 2010

  • Vince Cable

    Basel committee calls for transparency over bankers' pay and bonuses

    Banks told to release more data about remuneration and the risks posed to financial institutions that pay guaranteed bonuses

November 2010

  • Barclays

    Barclays sets aside £1.6bn for bonuses

    Third-quarter results from the bank hint at size of December payouts, despite a loss this quarter from Barclays Capital

October 2010

  • Peter Sands of Standard Chartered

    Standard Chartered launches rights issue

    Emerging markets-focused bank is raising £3.3bn through a rights issue to shore up its finances ahead of the introduction of new global capital rules under Basel III
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