Newsletter October 2013: Shape of Basel IV already glimpsed

LONDON – Even though implementation of the Basel III capital and liquidity framework for banks is not due to be completed until the start of 2019, it is already possible to see the emergence of a Basel IV, according to professional services firm KPMG. In a mid-September report*, the firm identifies three issues that it thinks could provide the basis of the next regulatory package from the Basel Committee regulators that set prudential standards for banks around the world.