Basel Framework

  • G-SIB Window Dressing: Basel Moves Indicators to Annual Averages

    On 16 October 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published final amendments to SCO40, the chapter of the Basel Framework that scores global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The G-SIB window dressing amendments change what a bank reports for the ten stock indicators behind its score: an average across the reporting year, where the framework…

  • BCBS Consolidated Guidelines: One Website, 75% Less Guidance

    On 26 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published, in draft form, a single website that gathers its guidelines and sound practices in one place. The BCBS consolidated guidelines pull material that used to sit across dozens of separate PDF documents into a modular structure, and the Committee says the exercise cut the…

  • Basel Operational Risk Amendment: The Business Indicator Fix

    On 23 March 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision finalised a technical amendment to the standardised approach to operational risk, and paired it with a new answer to a market risk frequently asked question. Both changes work at the definitional level, touching the plumbing beneath the numbers: how a single accounting line maps into…

  • Synthetic Risk Transfers: BCBS Maps Capital-Relief Gaps

    On 17 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published Synthetic risk transfers, a 31-page report on a market that has become an important source of capital relief for corporate credit risk. Across Canada, the euro area, the United Kingdom and the United States, the Committee estimates that about EUR 750 billion of assets…