LONDON, July 8 - UK regulators believe the more complex approaches to assessing credit risk under the proposed Basel II minimum capital rules for bank safety should be available to all banks, regardless of size.

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The process of getting the new capital adequacy regime for international banks adopted in the US reaches a key stage on Friday when the country\'s four leading bank regulators will jointly issue their Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR).

LONDON, July 17 - Investment banks in London have had management structures which, at the very least, leave them open to the charge that they don\'t handle conflicts of interest in the way their customers would hope, Britain\'s chief financial regulator said today.

LONDON, July 22 - Many financial firms in the UK face a significant challenge in deciding how to respond to the new regulatory regime on operational risk due to come into force in September 2004, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said today.

LONDON, July 15 - UK regulators plan to bring general, or non-life, insurance companies under a new risk-based capital regime to help head off future failures in the sector, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said today.

WASHINGTON, July 11 - US banking supervisors today jointly gave formal notice of their proposals for implementing in the US the controversial Basel II capital rules for bank safety, with a comment period that threatens the timetable for issuing the final version of the Basel II rules.

BASEL, Switzerland, July 31 - The deadline closes today for comment on the third consultation paper on the controversial Basel II capital rules on bank safety with global banking regulators still officially aiming to have the final version of the rules out by the end of the year, despite acknowledged pressures on the timetable.

Political rows notwithstanding, the new international accounting standards are on their way - and they\'re intimately linked to regimes like Basel II and Solvency II By David Keefe

Europe\'s version of Basel II relaxes demands on investment firms, but banks fear unlevel playing field, reports David Keefe

The UK wants risk-based capital rules to make insurance companies safer, but it will have to fit in with Europe\'s plans