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…
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…
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…
On 12 December 2025 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions published a joint review of how the uncleared margin requirements framework has been implemented, and the headline for reporting and collateral teams is that nothing in the rulebook moves. The review found no material issues with the framework…
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 6 January 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a newsletter on the implementation of the Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting, the 2013 standard known as BCBS 239. For anyone running a BCBS 239 risk data aggregation and risk reporting programme, it sets no new template and no fresh…
On 3 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published Investigating Professional Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and the Use of Hawala and Other Similar Service Providers, and one case study, Operation Klaver in the Netherlands, records approximately EUR 500 million in criminal proceeds processed over eight months through a cash-based informal value-transfer system. The report…
On 6 May 2026 the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) opened a consultation that would rewrite parts of two documents every central counterparty already works to: the 2017 CCP resilience guidance and the 2015 public quantitative disclosure standards. The CPMI-IOSCO initial margin package folds six…
On 6 August 2026 the Financial Stability Board published the public responses to its consultation on Sound Practices for Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The FSB AI sound practices were put out for comment on 10 June 2026, the comment window closed on 22 July 2026, and the FSB now says it expects to…
On 26 June 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published a report on terrorist financing through social media, instant messaging applications and streaming platforms, and it lands with an uncomfortable number attached. Fewer than 30% of jurisdictions contributing to the FATF report said that this risk was covered in their national risk assessments. That national-level…