Drops in technical provisions, some of them big, are signalled in a pre-test check for a Solvency II quantitative impact study.

LONDON, October 18 (Global Risk Regulator) – Europe and the US need to find a pragmatic way forward on the home country-host country regulation issues opened up by their different timetables for implementing the Basel II bank safety rules, a top European Commission official said today.

FRANKFURT, Germany, October 5 (Global Risk Regulator) - A European Central Bank official responsible for bank oversight, Bundesbank board member Edgar Meister, said today he regretted a US delay in implementing the Basel II bank safety rules, Reuters news agency reported.

LONDON, October 4 (Global Risk Regulator) – The one-year delay in US plans for implementing the international Basel II bank safety rules is probably good news for large European banks in an immediate sense. But there are doubts about the implications for the Basel II framework long term, European banking industry representatives believe.

VIENNA, October 24 (Global Risk Regulator) – The world’s insurance industry and its regulators must make the development of an objective global standard for measuring insurer solvency a top priority, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official urged last week.

WASHINGTON, October 20 (Global Risk Regulator) – US banking regulators have set January 18 as the deadline for comment on their so-called Basel IA proposals for making current bank safety rules more risk-sensitive.

BRUSSELS, October 31 (Global Risk Regulator) – European and US banking regulators will redouble their collaboration in the light of the timetable differences over the implementation of the international Basel II bank safety rules, the world’s top banking supervisor said at the end of last week.

WASHINGTON, October 7 (Global Risk Regulator) – US banking industry representatives generally welcomed the proposed US revisions of the current Basel I bank safety rules issued yesterday. The revisions aim to offset any competitive disadvantages arising for the thousands of US regional and community banks that won’t be adopting the international Basel II capital adequacy rules.

US regulators reassure Europe on Basel II commitment. Congress still hostile. Bankers try to quantify effects of timetable differences By Melvyn Westlake

A further six month delay in implementing MiFID is proposed by Britain. London investment firms aim to defend summer advances By Melvyn Westlake