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One of the factors contributing to treasury market's strong performance this year has been the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), a Basel...

In addition to the pending Basel-based regulation on minimum leverage ratio ( see post ), US regulators are pushing to set the minimum sup...

The debate around "too big to fail" of the US banking system is often infused with political rhetoric and media hype. Let's ...

Guest post by Jasper Tamespeke This has been bugging me after some of your recent articles, but what prompted me to write was your post...

A recent post on the Cato Institute blog by Steve Hanke paints a grim picture of the impact from increasing bank capital ratio requirement...

As discussed before ( see post) Basel III implementation carries significant costs. In the US the implementation has its unique problems ...

After the Ferbruary post on the flaws of Basel III regulation ( see discussion ) we got a number of emails pointing to the importance of u...

Published Basel III-based capital measures are exposing European banks who will need to raise the most amounts of capital to meet the late...

Structured correctly, a reduction in a bank's Risk Weighted Assets for certain corporate credits may still be possible, even under the...

A Sober Look post from a couple of years ago discusses the issues associated with using rolling historical period Value at Risk (VAR). Th...

There is no shortage of ill-conceived regulation descending on the global financial industry. In some instances the new regulation wi...

In their effort to remove proprietary trading from bank holding companies and increase capital requirements, regulators are destroying liq...