WASHINGTON, March 30 (Global Risk Regulator) – The US Federal Reserve Board today made public an early draft of final plans, delayed from mid-2005, for implementing the controversial Basel II bank safety rules in the US.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 9 (Global Risk Regulator) – The work of global banking regulators to strengthen the international capital framework is of great importance to all banks, smaller US banks included, Comptroller of the US Currency John Dugan told bankers today.

NEW YORK, March 29 (Global Risk Regulator) – Bankers and others are strongly encouraged to comment on all aspects of the delayed and revised plans, due out tomorrow, for implementing the controversial Basel II bank safety rules in the US, a top US banking supervisor said today.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 8 (Global Risk Regulator) – US federal regulators expect to make public at the end of March their delayed final plans for implementing the Basel II bank safety rules, Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) director John Reich said today

ZURICH, Switzerland, March 30 (Global Risk Regulator) – International banking industry leaders, fearing the impact of different implementation timetables, stressed today the vital need to quicken the tempo for resolving all outstanding issues in the Basel II bank safety rules.

LONDON, April 12 (Global Risk Regulator) – A selection of consultation papers and other documents recently issued by international and national regulators follows:

NAPLES, Florida, April 11 – As US regulators develop new rules for the thousands of US banks that won’t be adopting the complex Basel II safety regime, they will analyse carefully the trade-off between risk sensitivity and the greater burden placed on banks, a top supervisor said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Global Risk Regulator) – Safeguards placed on the US implementation of the Basel II bank safety rules are highly appropriate, given the uncertainty about the final outcome in terms of bank capital levels, a top US federal banking supervisor said today.

BARCELONA, Spain – May 16 (Global Risk Regulator) –Draft US proposals for implementing the Basel II bank safety rules, as issued by the Federal Reserve Board in March, are unlikely to be substantially changed by the approval processes now underway at the other federal banking supervisory agencies, a top US regulator said today.

BASEL, Switzerland, May 19 (Global Risk Regulator) – Netherlands Bank president Nout Wellink will be the new chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, succeeding current chairman Jaime Caruana from July 1.