The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, in cooperation with the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), is seeking views on potential changes to the capital treatment of banks' exposure to central counterparties...

The events of the last few years, particularly those in the global financial crisis that began in 2007, indicate that mortgage insurance (MI) is subject to significant stress in the worst tail events. This report examines the interaction of mortgage insurers with mortgage originators and...

The Research Task Force Transmission Channel (RTF-TC) project was conceived before the onset of the recent global financial crisis. From the beginning, RTF-TC was intended to be a long-term project that would involve many RTF member institutions. The primary goal was to generate new research on...