LONDON, January 16 - At a key meeting in London tomorrow, bankers, and regulators from the leading industrialised countries, will try to hammer out an agreement for the future treatment of securitised transactions under the proposed Basel II capital accord.

LONDON, January 22 -- In a forcefully-worded letter, private sector groups engaged in the securitisation business have challenged the Basel Committee to re-think aspects of the proposed capital accord aimed at ensuring the future safety of the world\'s banking system.

BRUSSELS, April 28 - The Basel II upgrade of minimum capital rules for bank safety should result in a small reduction in bank capital requirements and thus give a small boost to the European Union economy, according to a study requested by the European Commission, the EU\'s executive arm.

WASHINGTON, April 2 -There\'s little room for \"substantive compromise\" over the treatment of certain retail credit products, in particular unused credit card lines, in the Basel II upgrade of international bank safety rules, US Comptroller of the Currency John Hawke said this week.

LONDON, April 5 - International accounting rule makers declined direct comment today on news that Europe\'s top financial regulator is confident the European Union can resolve the row over certain new accounting standards for banks and insurers ahead of planned adoption in January 2005.

BRUSSELS, April 6 - The European Commission has issued a further paper on its proposed risk-based Solvency II regime for Europe\'s insurance industry which discusses areas for work that weren\'t dealt with in a previous paper issued in February.

US regulators struggle to get agreed approach with private sector

TOKYO -- Japan\'s biggest banks now have negative capital ratios, on average, according to the latest calculations of a leading credit rating agency

NEW YORK - Three financial sector trade bodies launched a survey in December with the aim of giving guidance to banks and their national regulators on the validation of internal credit ratings under the proposed Basel II bank safety accord.

LONDON- Bankers who arrange complex structured financial deals for multi-billion dollar projects around the world are increasingly confident of persuading regulators that this specialised business is no riskier than conventional lending to the corporate sector.