Basel 4 and European banks, are we safer now?1

• Financial Policy and International Markets, Op-ed
• 22/01/2018

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has recently agreed on a new set of rules with more restrictive requirements for the banking sector. These provisions will force European banks to converge to standardised risk-weighting of their assets by 2027 and should create better harmonisation of international capital requirements.