Proposed BIS capital requirements for banks holding bitcoin & similar assets overlooks the biggest risk: settlement risk. To be clear, the risk is to the banks, not to Bitcoin itself.

Bitcoin poses higher risks than stablecoins, so tougher capital set-aside is needed to safeguard banks, BIS said. Banks will need to hold $1 in capital for every $1 worth of bitcoin given the ...

The Bank for International Settlements said higher capital requirements for banks during credit booms could limit growth and reduce volatility in the global economy by up to 20%, reports Bloomberg.

Research findings on the subject vary greatly. A 2015 working paper from De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank, that surveyed academic studies on the impacts of capital requirements dating ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has updated its minimum capital requirements for market risk, ... Asset servicing glossary. Asset Servicing Times home Industry news BIS updates minimum ...

The new proposal would increase capital levels for big banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America by 9% in aggregate, down by half from the original plan from more than a year ago, which set ...

“Capital requirements are the speed limits of banking,” says BIS chief Jaime Caruana. Existing requirements are insufficient to ensure financial stability, and "an idea worth exploring is ...

A committee commissioned by the Bank for International Settlements questions whether financial institutions can meet the capital requirements mandated in Basel 3. In September, the Basel Committee ...

The desire among politicians and their regulatory enablers to foist ever=higher capital requirements on banks is relentless, and for being relentless, dangerous. Supporters of regulatory decrees ...

Regulators should complete work on new their bank capital rules without diluting them otherwise it would be harder to draw a line under the financial crisis, a global central banking official said ...