In a letter to the European Commissioner for Financial Services, Valdis Dombrovskis, dated Monday 28 August, the European Banking Federation (EBF) argues for two measures of the Financial risk reduction package to be frozen until the international rules on reinforcing banks' capital requirements (Basel III) are finalised (see EUROPE 11810).
The two measures flagged up in the letter, of which EUROPE has had sight, are the new standards for assessing the market risk of the trading book (FRTB)...