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.

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 ...

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 ...

Thus, higher capital requirements can raise the cost of funding to a bank, ... The goal of the Basel committee, which was convened by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, ...

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 ...

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - Global banking regulators proposed measures on Thursday to crack down on the world's biggest banks that game capital requirements by making derivatives positions appear ...