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The FSB, along with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has been quietly considering new mechanisms for monitoring implementation of standards, particularly in the context of Basel III rules.

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The Basel Committee has proposed strengthening considerably both the quantity and the quality of capital in the global banking system.

The recent agreement by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on a new capital adequacy framework is another positive step.

They may also have heard of the Bank for International Settlements, the central banks central bank, in which the Basel Committee sits.

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The FSB, along with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has been quietly considering new mechanisms for monitoring implementation of standards, particularly in the context of Basel III rules. FSB membership should imply accountability in implementation of standards.

Many people show some spark of recognition at the mention of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which sets capital standards for banks.

Meanwhile, agreeing on Basel 3 banking standards in just two years is commendable, especially as Basel 2 took a decade to negotiate.

Smarter capital requirements better Basel rules aren t the answer.

Elsewhere, various versions of the Basel 1 and Basel 2 accords on international banking standards are in operation, sometimes with ad hoc supplements.

More worryingly, Basel 3 retains, if not deepens, biases in the Basel 2 rules against bank lending to developing countries, such as for trade finance.

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(p) Best practices such as those compiled by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

The problem is that the Basel capital rules whether Basel I, II, or III are of no help in separating the weak banks from the sound ones.

The second Basel accord took more than a decade to conclude Basel 3 was drawn up in little more than 24 months (though implementation is taking quite long).

Even the new Basel 3 banking standards have been diluted and postponed.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has recently come out in favor of such regulations, and the United States House of Representatives has voted to require regulators to set compensation rules.

They could be co located in a regulatory Tower of Babel in Basel.

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Indeed, the Basel Committee plans to require more capital in the future, though the new requirements will be delayed, owing to concerns about the cost and availability of credit to sustain the recovery.

There is a strong argument for going further, and subsuming the standard setters the Basel Committee, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, etc. in a single body.

None of the major banks met even the Basel 1 standards for capital adequacy.

Institutionally, it is simply an extension of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.

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We can only hope that the bankers are eventually rescued from the burning eurotower by Super Sarkozy and Wonder Frau Merkel and that the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors ensures that there will be no sequel.

Additionally, strategies to circumvent the Basel rules made banks more complex and difficult to manage and supervise.

The major advantage of the scheme is that it dovetails with other reforms under development in Basel.

The most remarkable feature of the policy deliberations on prudential banking rules so far has been their delegation to the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors and the banks themselves, both of which have a vested interest in preserving the existing system.

Indeed, the US adopted wide ranging financial reform in July, Europe is in the final steps of approval of its legislative package, and the Basel committee has just given the green light to a substantial tightening of credit risk rules.

The most remarkable feature of the policy deliberations on prudential banking rules so far has been their delegation to the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors and the banks themselves, both of which have a vested interest in preserving the existing system.

After the crisis, world leaders and central bankers overhauled banking regulations, first and foremost by rectifying the Basel prudential rules.

Reliance on financial institutions internal models, the major focus of the Basel II agreement on banking regulation, should be discarded.

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