This paper discusses the role of information in effective market discipline and effective banking supervision, recommending that banks provide timely information to market participants and that supervisors focus their efforts on encouraging high-quality public disclosure at reasonable cost (September 1998).
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1 September 1998
1 September 1998
The paper describes the essential elements of a sound internal control system. The principles set out in the paper are intended to be of general application and supervisory authorities should use them in assessing their own supervisory methods and procedures for monitoring how banks structure their internal control systems.
1 September 1998
These international disclosure standards reflect a consensus among securities regulators in the major capital markets as to the type of information that should be disclosed in cross-border offerings and listings of equity securities. The standards cover fundamental disclosure topics such as the description of the issuers’ business, results of operations, management and the securities it plans to offer or list.
The document sets out requirements for regulators on record keeping, collection of information, enforcement powers and mutual cooperation.
The document sets out an agreement among regulators on commodity futures markets’ oversight.
1 September 1997
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is designed to facilitate mutual assistance and the exchange of information on insurance matters between regulatory bodies in different jurisdictions.
1 October 1996
This Report is prepared in collaboration with the Offshore Group of Banking Supervisors with respect to the implementation of the Concordat. It provides twenty-nine recommendations aimed at reducing impediments to the effective supervision of cross-border banking.
29 March 1996
The SDDS serves to guide countries that have, or that might seek, access to international capital markets in the dissemination of economic and financial data to the public.
1 September 1991
The Principles contained in this report provide a blueprint for use by securities and futures regulatory authorities in developing MoUs with their foreign counterparts. The Principles set high standards and goals to be incorporated into MOUs in a broad range of securities and futures matters.
This Report sets out principles governing the supervision of banks’ foreign establishments by home and host banking supervisory authorities. It deals exclusively with their responsibilities for monitoring the prudential conduct and soundness of the business of banks’ foreign establishments (May 1983).