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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's recently announced new approach to its conduct of banking supervision places greater emphasis on market disciplines and public disclosure to promote a stable financial system. Some detailed prudential rules currently imposed on banks will be removed.

The Asian Development Bank Institute and the Financial Supervisory Agency, Government of Japan jointly sponsored the High-Level Dialogue on Banking Regulation and Financial Market Development held at the ADB Institute in Tokyo on June 8-9, 2000. The conference attracted participants from Japan, France, Germany, Hong Kong, China; Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and the United States. Senior officials from the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision also participated in the conference. The dialogue extends the theme of a previous conference in 1999 on bank restructuring and crisis prevention toward a review of the progress of such initiatives in the Asian banking sector as post-crisis restructuring, introduction of sound corporate governance systems for banks and implementation of the Basle Core Principles. In Session I of the dialogue, bank regulators from Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines described the progress of reforms in their countries' banking regulation and restructuring. Session II explored issues of strengthening the Asian financial sector through improvement in the corporate governance of banks and development of the corporate bond market as an alternative source of finance.

AbstractIn 1993, the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision considered whether to incorporate interest rate risk in risk‐based capital requirements for international banks. At issue was whether a bank's interest rate risk varies with the country of concern. While the effects of interest rate movements on U.S. banks are well documented, the effects on banks from other countries are not. We find that bank interest rate risk varies among countries, which supports the need to capture interest rate risk differentials in the risk‐based capital requirements. We also find that non‐U.S. bank values are sensitive not only to domestic interest rates, but to international interest rates as well.