At this luncheon briefing, the SFRC, a group of independent experts on the financial services industry, issued a statement and answered questions.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) is proposing to regulate bank liquidity. This marks a major innovation in the Basel approach to international banking regulation.

Since 1999, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which consists of the bank supervisors of almost all developed countries, has been struggling to adopt a new capital adequacy framework for commercial banks. The Basel Committee’s bank capital proposal, known as Basel II, has been amended several times and still has...

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance, and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among...

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance, and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among...

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry--including banking, insurance, and securities--who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among...

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance, and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among...

Basel III proposes to tinker with the risk weights for assets, particularly emphasizing higher risk weights for assets in the trading book that also embody credit and counterparty risk.