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On January 21, 2015, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
("Basel Committee") published its work program for 2015
and 2016. The program is based around four themes: (i) policy
development; (ii) the balance between simplicity, comparability and
risk sensitivity across the regulatory framework; (iii) monitoring
and assessing implementation of the Basel framework; and (iv)
improving the effectiveness of supervision. The Basel
Committee's work program states its objectives, which include
restoring confidence in capital ratios, continuing to revise
existing methods of measuring risk-weighted assets, assessing the
role of stress testing, reviewing the regulatory treatment of
sovereign risk as well as assessing the interaction of reform
policies overall.
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