WASHINGTON, December 27 (Global Risk Regulator) – US banking supervisors have set March 26 as the deadline for comments on their latest plans for implementing the Basel II bank safety plans and the so-called Basel IA revisions to the capital rules applying to the nation’s smaller banks.

PARIS, July 5 (Global Risk Regulator) – The US and Europe are closer than appears on the implementation of the international Basel II bank safety rules, according to one of Europe’s most senior banking regulators.

OTTAWA, July 16 (Global Risk Regulator) – Nick Le Pan, who last week surprised Canada’s financial sector by announcing his intended resignation as head of the country’s financial services watchdog body, has “offered to make himself available throughout the transition process” involved in bringing the international Basel II bank safety rules into effect.

PARIS, July 4 (Global Risk Regulator) – Agency review of the latest proposals for implementing the Basel II bank safety rules in the US is now likely to be completed in August, a top US banking regulator said today.

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Global Risk Regulator) – US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke today stood by plans that will restrict US banks adopting the controversial, international Basel II bank safety rules to using only advanced approaches to measuring their credit and operational risks.

WASHINGTON, August 29 (Global Risk Regulator) – US regulators today confirmed September 5 as the date for a key board meeting that is expected to approve final proposals for implementing the controversial Basel II bank safety plans in the US.

WASHINGTON, August 3 (Global Risk Regulator) – As US regulators received another appeal from bankers to allow US banks the option of using the simplest way of measuring credit risk under the international Basel II bank safety rules, it seems the timing of final supervisor approval of revised proposals for implementing the controversial rules in the US has slipped to September.

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