Banks face a push from international regulators for stiffer rules on the capital needed to handle an increase in interest rates.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is weighing updating its standards for capturing interest-rate risk on assets banks plan to hold to maturity, Stefan Ingves, the regulator's chairman, said in an interview.
"We are working on interest-rate risk in the banking book," Ingves said on March 27 in Frankfurt. "We are looking into that presently and we hope to put out something in this field fairly soon."
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