With the clock ticking on adoption of EU’s insurance regime, temporary measures are likely on non-EU equivalence issue

A sea change in supervision is presaged in new policy proposals. Slammed for past leniency, supervisors must become more effective By David Keefe

Investment and universal banks will be most affected by proposed rules. Supervisors must be alert to new sources of systemic risk By Melvyn Westlake

SEOUL, November 10 (Global Risk Regulator) ) - Global regulators have yet to draw up lists of banks judged “too big to fail”, according to people close to the Group of Twenty’s taskforce on financial regulation, Reuters news agency reported today from Seoul as G20 leaders gathered in the South Korean capital for their two-day summit which begins tomorrow.

THE HAGUE/LONDON, November 10 (Global Risk Regulator) - Plans to impose extra safeguards on the world's top banks may be softened, a senior regulator signalled on Wednesday as world leaders gathered in Seoul to keep their regulatory reforms on track, Reuters news agency reported today from The Hague and London.

BRUSSELS, October 29 (Global Risk Regulator) – Europe’s leaders said today they looked forward to endorsement of the tough Basel III bank capital and liquidity rules at the Group of Twenty summit in Seoul next month.

LONDON, October 25 (Global Risk Regulator) – Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 economies signed off at their weekend meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea on a series of regulatory measures that are expected to be approved by the G20 leaders at their November 11-12 summit in Seoul. The following are the key reforms that can be expected, according to Reuters news agency:

GYEONGJU, South Korea, October 24 (Global Risk Regulator) – Global financial regulators confirmed at the weekend that they will not finalise which banks are to be judged “too big to fail” until the middle of next year, according to news agencies reporting from the Group of Twenty finance ministers’ and central bankers meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea.

SEOUL, October 19 (Global Risk Regulator) – Central bankers and regulators will finalise concrete rules on systemically important financial institutions by mid-2011, according to the world’s top banking regulator as reported today from Seoul by news agencies covering a meeting of the 27-nation Basel Committee of global banking regulators.

LONDON, October 18 (Global Risk Regulator) – As bankers look set for another clash with regulators over plans to impose a capital surcharge on banks deemed systemically important, a top international banker has “broken ranks” with the rest of the global banking industry by saying that the availability of credit should be unaffected by tough new capital rules for banks.