On 24 March 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2025, and the single number a capital planning team should read first is 1.7%. That is how much the fully phased-in final Basel III framework would add to the Tier 1 minimum required capital of…
On 31 December 2025 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority completed its annual assessment and confirmed the list of authorized institutions designated as domestic systemically important banks. The HKMA D-SIB designation for 2026 names the same five institutions as a year earlier, and it leaves their Higher Loss Absorbency (HLA) requirements at the levels each already…
Japan’s Financial Services Agency published its Report on the Monitoring and Analysis of Deposit-Taking Financial Institutions on 31 July 2026. It sets out where the FSA spent its prudential supervision effort across Business Year (BY) 2025, the window from July 2025 to June 2026, and it identifies seven areas covered in the report without ranking…
If your trading desk capital plan for 2027 already assumes the full Fundamental Review of the Trading Book bites on 1 January, the European Commission just changed the arithmetic. On 4 June 2026 it adopted a delegated act that keeps the new Basel III market risk rules switching on as planned, but bolts a multiplier…