BIS Document Topics

BCBS Publication Types and Topics

Document Types

The following is the list of BIS publication types:

• Standards: This class of publications codifies binding regulatory standards (after those are accepted and ratified by relevant jurisdictions)
• Guidelines: Guidelines are similar to standards in terms of being fairly prescriptive expectations, except that it is not anticipated that these will become binding legal requirements
• Sound practices: These publications are typically reviews of current best practice in some subject area
• Implementation: These are reports on current status of implementation of the regulatory agenda
• Others: General topics not falling in any of the above

Topic Classification

The following is the list of BIS document classification by topics:

• Basel Committee history and membership
• Macroprudential
• Concordat and cross-border issues
• Financial conglomerates
• Core Principles
• Supervision
• Accounting and auditing
• Corporate Governance
• Risk management
• Interest rate risk
• Operational risk
• Market risk
• Credit risk and securitisation
• Other risks
• Liquidity
• Money laundering and terrorist financing
• Compliance
• Transparency and disclosure
• QIS – Quantitative impact study
• Implementation
• Implementation monitoring
• Basel I
• Basel II
• Basel III
• Capital
• Deposit insurance
• Banking Problems
• Leverage Ratio