BCBS

  • Non-Maturity Deposit Stability: What BCBS Working Paper 47 Signals

    On 20 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published Working Paper No 47, a 35-page literature review titled “Literature review on non-maturity deposit stability: established factors and recent developments”. Non-maturity deposit stability is the question of how reliably sight deposits, current accounts and savings balances stay put when a bank comes under stress,…

  • 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…

  • BCBS Third-Party Risk Principles: DORA and Outsourcing Rules

    On 10 December 2025 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its Principles for the sound management of third-party risk, a 22-page Guidelines publication setting out 12 principles for how banks and their supervisors handle the providers now sitting inside almost every banking process. For the banking sector it supersedes the 2005 Joint Forum paper…

  • Basel III Monitoring June 2025: Where the Capital Impact Sits

    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…

  • Basel Committee ICT Risk Management: The Four Root Causes of Incidents

    On 2 June 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a range-of-practices report on information and communication technology (ICT) risk management. It draws on a survey of 16 jurisdictions and centres on how global and domestic systemically important banks handle the technology failures that take critical services offline. The Basel Committee ICT risk management…

  • Japan FSA IT Resilience Report 2026: Four Supervisory Fronts for Banks

    Japan’s Financial Services Agency published its Analytical Report on IT Resilience in the Financial Sector on 30 July 2026, and the framing in the executive summary is blunt: the management of financial institutions needs to recognise IT risk and cyber risk as top management priorities. The Japan FSA IT resilience report carries no template and…