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January 2016
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Title and Brief Summary |
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IAIS [Applicable to insurance companies] |
Common Framework for the Supervision of Internationally Active Insurance Groups — Draft In developing ComFrame, the IAIS has utilised an open and transparent process involving both Members and insurance professionals. A Concept Paper was issued for public consultation in 2011 with the Draft ComFrame similarly being issued for public consultation in 2012 and 2013. The IAIS has also held numerous meetings and dialogues with industry participants in order to obtain and incorporate actual business experiences. The IAIS finalised ComFrame for the purposes of Field Testing in 2013. The ComFrame is being revised and updated as field testing progresses. The next steps are the finalisation of ICS for the purposes of field testing (2016), the consultation on ComFrame including ICS (2017) and the finalisation and adoption of ComFrame (2018). |
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OSFI [Applicable to banks, trust and loan companies and cooperative credit associations] |
Draft Guideline — Pillar 3 Disclosure Requirements OSFI's draft guideline on Pillar 3 Disclosure Requirements clarifies OSFI's expectations regarding domestic implementation by federally regulated deposit-taking institutions of the Revised Pillar 3 Disclosure Requirements issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in January 2015. |
Comments should be provided no later than March 21, 2016. |
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BIS/Basel [Applicable to banks] |
Revised Framework for Market Risk Capital Requirements The Revised Market Risk Framework is a key component of the Basel Committee's overall efforts to reform global regulatory standards in response to the global financial crisis. The purpose of the Revised Market Risk Framework is to ensure that the standardised and internal model approaches to market risk deliver credible capital outcomes and promote consistent implementation of the standards across jurisdictions. The final standard incorporates changes that have been made following two consultative documents published in October 2013 and December 2014 and several quantitative impact studies. An explanatory note has been published to provide a non-technical description of the rationale and main features of the January 2016 revisions to the market risk framework. |
Effective January 1, 2019 |
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