Canada's banking regulator said on Wednesday it would pause increases to banks' required capital levels, citing economic uncertainty and slow progress by other countries in implementing the rules ...

Last July, OSFI announced a one-year delay in a planned increase to standardized capital floor level (output floor), which would tighten capital requirements on the banks. At the time, the regulator ...

Publicly, the world’s policymakers say they’re committed to fully implementing the final post-crisis reforms to global ...

In an interview Wednesday, OSFI superintendent Peter Routledge said that while uncertainty about whether the United States ...

OSFI in July had already delayed by one year key rules on capital floor levels, which are part of the global Basel III ...

OSFI has decided to extend its pause on changing the level that Canadian big banks’ risk-weighted assets can fall when ...

The Basel III capital framework will strengthen banks' ability to withstand financial shocks and support economic growth while enabling them to compete and take reasonable risks. Key to these ...

Despite difficulties of the market, many domestic commercial banks increased capital in 2024, bringing the total charter ...

The capital-floor amendments are part of Basel III, the final step in global accords meant to limit financial contagion in the event of a crisis. Canada has already put many of those reforms in ...