With the post-crisis financial regulatory agenda nearing completion, the Financial Stability Board is beginning to focus on how far its members are implementing the package of reforms.

The Hong Kong regulator is the first to use the Basel III macroprudential tool to increase bank capital requirements as a way to cool credit growth.

The European Insurance and Operational Pensions Authority is shelving work on financial stability and consumer protection after a 7.6% fall in its budget allocation for 2015.

The idea of low-volatility variable net asset value funds could break the EU political deadlock over a crucial G20 priority for the regulation of the shadow banking sector.

A new parliamentary rapporteur is winning broad-based support, but the move beyond International Organisation of Securities Commissions principles still raises concerns.

The European securities regulator has chosen to define fixed-income liquidity by classes of instrument, sparking fears of a blunt measure.

Tighter concentration limits and increasingly scarce high-quality sovereign bonds could scupper plans for EU government funds.

The UK senior managers regime is at the forefront of international efforts to align incentives with good risk management, but legal difficulties abound.

Proprietary trading ban unlikely to be a politically acceptable compromise to implement Liikanen report proposals.

The Basel Committee is examining the use of standardised approaches as floors for banks' internal models to calculate the risk-weighting of assets in their capital ratios.