This updated Progress report on implementation of the Basel regulatory framework provides a high-level view of Basel Committee members' progress in adopting Basel II, Basel 2.5 and Basel III, as of end March 2014. It focuses on the status of domestic rule-making processes to ensure that the...

Why should differences between regulatory and accounting policies be mitigated? Because mitigating such differences could facilitate convergence – as well as financial stability.The paper “Fair Value Accounting and Procyclicality: Mitigating Regulatory and Accounting Policy Differences...

Through its Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP), the Basel Committee (Committee) monitors the timely adoption of Basel III regulations by its members, assesses their consistency with the Basel framework and analyses the quality of regulatory outcomes. The RCAP is fundamental to...

The report brings together two pieces of analysis. The first is based on an examination of publicly available bank data for a selection of large banks. It also contains the results of a hypothetical test portfolio exercise, in which 15 internationally active banks participated.