The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment.  At its meeting ending on 12 September 2018, the MPC voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.75%. The Committee voted unanimously to ...more »

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) examined the effects of G20 financial regulatory reforms on ...more »

The European Banking Authority (EBA) released today the two sets of templates, which will be used in the 2018 impact assessment of the finalised Basel III standards. These two sets of quantitative impact study (QIS) templates, which build on the Basel III regular monitoring ...more »

The Basel Committee today released a technical amendment on additional Pillar 3 disclosure requirements for those jurisdictions implementing an expected credit loss (ECL) accounting model as well as for those adopting transitional arrangements for the regulatory treatment of ...more »

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a joint report with the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, the International Organization of Securities Commissions and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision exploring interdependencies between central counterparties (CCPs) and clearing members ...more »

La congiuntura bancaria europea sembra vivere un momento positivo. Come emerge dall’ultimo Rapporto Banche del Centro Europa Ricerche (2018) gli impieghi bancari erogati a tutti i settori economici sono cresciuti dello 0,4% in Italia, ...more »

The Bank for International Settlement published the statistical results for end-of-March 2018 on global liquidity indicators. The results are summarized as follows. US dollar credit to non-bank borrowers outside the United States rose to $11.5 trillion at end-March 2018, up by 7% over the previous ...more »

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) setting out conditions for securitisation to be deemed homogeneous. Homogeneity is one of the crucial requirements for a securitisation transaction to be assessed as simple, ...more »

The European Central Bank (ECB) published on the 24th of July the results of the euro area bank lending survey collected in July 2018. These results can be summarized in three main points: Easing credit standards and increasing demand across all loan categories continued to support loan ...more »