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Basel III: The Beginning of the End
This panel will discuss the package of reforms finalised by the Basel
Committee in December 2017, which are designed to help reduce
excessive variability in risk weighted assets and improve the comparability
and transparency of banks’ risk-based capital ratios.
Issues to be addressed:
• Changes to the credit risk measurement framework: Standardised and
internal ratings-based approaches
• Changes to the treatment of operational risk
• Leverage ratio surcharge for the largest banks
• Introduction of the capital output floor
• Implementation across jurisdictions