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US Basel II Implementation – Final Rules

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One event I missed posting on at the time was the final agreement of all of the US regulators on the way that Basel II will be implemented in the US that happened 10 days ago. After some seriously silly obstinate argument from the FDIC, I was please to note at the time that the Fed largely got its way in the end, and now those rules have now been given final agreement.

To those of us watching from the outside this has been a painful process. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for the US banks. The end result was close to the right one - the one I suggested a full year ago. In this, at least, the delay was worthwhile. Going with the FDIC's original position would have been close to suicide for the whole US banking system - and a long, slow suicide it would have been.

Randall Kroszner's speech on the matter is worth a read. The way he delicately steps around the blithering idiocy errors of the FDIC and the local bank lobbyists is almost artful.
One bit irks me, though - at the bottom of page 5 of the speech he is seeming to say that the US regulators will be coming up with a "standardised"  method of implementing Basel II. Amazing - I wonder what paras 50 to 210 of the New Accord are?

In most of the rest of the world the process has been fairly sedate - well, as sedate as a nearly complete change to the bank regulatory framework can ever be. What am I going to talk about in this way again while we wait for Basel III?

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Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...

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