Showing posts with label risk buffer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk buffer. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

UK: PRA consults on system risk buffer policy statement

The Prudential Regulation Authority has published a consultation paper in which it sets out a proposed statement of policy in respect of the approach to be taken in the implementation of the systemic risk buffer: see here (pdf). The paper relates specifically to ring-fenced bodies and certain large building societies.

Monday, 18 April 2016

UK: Treasury Committee inquiry into bank capital standards

In an announcement last Friday, the chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee, the Rt Hon Andrew Tyrie MP, announced that the Committee would soon begin an inquiry into bank capital standards: see here. This follows the Committee's publication of a letter (here, pdf), from the Governor of the Bank of England to the Committee, concerning the disagreement between Sir John Vickers (chairman of the Independent Commission on Banking) and the Financial Policy Committee over the implementation of the systemic risk buffer.