A 2010 start date for banks adopting a more sophisticated capital model gives time for them, and supervisors, to get it right

US Senate Banking Committee investigates rating agencies role, while EU consults on the case for regulation

LONDON - A plan to provide a common framework for European banks and investment firms to report their solvency ratios was published in late January by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS).

JAKARTA - Indonesia can look forward to a banking system that by end-2010 will be fully capable of applying best practices in general and most importantly, the Basel II capital rules for improving bank safety, the country\'s central bank governor said in January.

HONG KONG - The Basel II upgrade of bank capital adequacy rules is unlikely to result in capital savings for the UK banking group HSBC on a group-wide basis, a top HSBC executive said in early February.

HONG KONG - Most Asian bank supervisors are likely to implement the new risk-sensitive capital accord - Basel II - as a key part of their supervisory regimes.

WASHINGTON - The challenging US schedule for implementing the international Basel II bank safety rules has prompted US banking supervisors to give early disclosure of their current thinking on the qualifications needed for the advanced risk measurement approaches.

LONDON - The remorseless rise of regulation has become the greatest risk facing the banking sector, according to the latest \"Banana Skins\" survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), a London think tank.

MOSCOW – Europe’s approach to the thorny issue of home/host bank regulation could jeopardise a level competitive playing field both between European Union countries and with countries outside the EU, a top German central banker said in April.

WASHINGTON – The US Office of Thrift Supervision’s (OTS’s) pursuit of a seat at the global banking regulators’ top table has led it to be out of step with fellow federal banking supervisors on yet another issue.