Financial Stability Board (FSB)
Shirakawa elected vice-chair of BIS board
Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa picked to succeed Hans Tietmeyer as vice-chair of Bank for International Settlements’ board of directors
Video: Japan FSA's Chikahisa Sumi talks about regulation's post-Basel III focus
The G-20 does not plan to sit still after its historic endorsement of Basel III. New targets include too-big-to-fail institutions, the shadow-banking system and commodity derivatives, according to Sumi.
Politics won't get in the way of Sifi plans: FSB's Draghi
Financial Stability Board chairman Mario Draghi says resolution regimes for systemically important banks operating across borders need not be bogged down in political tensions
G20 calls for bigger, better FSB to carry reform agenda
G20 leaders at Seoul summit identify areas in which further progress in needed, calling on Financial Stability Board to take the lead and drive reform; ask FSB to report on what extra resources it needs
FSB plans on Sifis win G20 approval
G20 leaders welcome reform packages to date, including fresh FSB proposal to tackle moral hazard posed by systemically important banks
FSB opens up to non-members with outreach proposal
Financial Stability Board to set up regional consultative groups to give non-members a presence in regulatory debate; move goes only half the way to correcting imbalance, DIFC chief economist says
FSB sets out markers for intense, effective supervision of Sifis
FSB issues recommendations to shape top notch oversight of systemically important financial institutions; calls for expansions, clarifications to core Basel principles
SocGen chief Oudéa to head key IIF committee
Société Générale chairman and chief executive Frédéric Oudéa will head Institute for International Finance’s influential committee on regulatory capital
Central banks, markets must cut ratings reliance: FSB
Financial Stability Board publishes principles to roll back the influence of credit ratings agencies
Basel Committee releases proposals for pay
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision releases guidelines on methodology for compensation practices; says proposals seek to more closely align risk and performance at financial institutions
IIF defends doom-and-gloom Basel III forecasts
Institute for International Finance backs up its predictions of Basel III output loss, which are deeper than regulators’
Isoard to head International Association of Deposit Insurers
International Association of Deposit Insurers appoints former governing board member of Mexico's deposit protection agency Carlos Isoard as next secretary general
International bodies fulfil G20 recommendation on information gaps
European Central Bank, Bank for International Settlements and IMF publish second part of Securities Statistics Handbook to address information gaps
Banks need more time to reform pay standards: IIF
Institute of International Finance says lenders need more than year to bring pay standards in line with Financial Stability Board’s principles; regulators must speed up coordination efforts
Wellink says Basel III to be phased in gradually in bid to soothe fears
Basel Committee chairman Nout Wellink says proposals on new regulations on banking will be introduced in an orderly manner; unrepentant on costs to growth
ECB's Trichet: ESRB will deliver macroprudential oversight
European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet outlines role of European Systemic Risk Board in supervisory framework
Systemic risk regulators should direct policy not just give warnings, says HSBC's Haswell
Past experience suggests the new financial stability bodies should direct regulatory policies, not just warn about instability
FSA’s Turner wants new macroprudential body
The UK’s top regulator Adair Turner says a body other than the Bank of England is needed to implement macroprudential supervision
FSB to probe banks’ progress on pay
Basel-based Financial Stability Board asks financial institutions to report on compensation standards