On July 8, 2015, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published final updated Guidelines on Corporate Governance Principles for Banks. The Guidelines replace the guidance published by the Basel Committee in 2010 which had been produced as a result of the lessons learnt since the recent financial crisis. The revised guidance has been issued because the thematic review on risk governance that the Financial Stability Board undertook in 2013 showed that banks still need to improve risk governance frameworks, including enhancing the authority and independence of chief risk officers, and that national regulators need to improve their ability to assess the effectiveness of a bank's risk governance and engage more frequently with the bank's board and risk and audit committees.
The revised Guidelines are available at: http://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d328.pdf
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