The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision : a history of the early years, 1974-1997 /
"The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) sets the guidelines for world-wide regulation of banks. It is the forum for agreeing international regulation on the conduct of banking. Based on special access to the archives of the BCBS and interviews with many of its key players, this book...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The antecedents of the BCBS
- Modus operandi: chairmen; secretariat; members; the structure of meetings
- The Concordat
- External and foreign exchange issues
- Capital adequacy and the Basel Accord of 1988
- The Market Risk Amendment
- The core principles of banking supervision
- Liquidity
- Off-balance-sheet exposures and derivatives
- Other topics addressed by the BCBS
- The relationship of the BCBS with banks and other banking regulators
- Relationships with other non-bank oversight and supervisory bodies
- The legal position of the BCBS
- The international relations of the BCBS
- The BCBS and the social sciences
- Epilogue.
