BASEL, Switzerland, July 16 – Reforms aimed at toughening bank capital and liquidity requirements are fully on track for delivery to world leaders at their November summit in Seoul, global banking regulators said today. Their statement came after a critical two-day meeting spent reviewing reform plans that bankers fear could damage global economic growth.

LONDON, June 28 (Global Risk Regulator) – The accounting rift that some see as placing a question mark over all the efforts to reform the global financial system remained unresolved at the weekend’s Group of Twenty summit amid further signs that the G20 momentum for reform is splintering on several fronts.

LONDON, June 25 (Global Risk Regulator) – Global banking regulators are likely to shelve the idea of forcing banks to maintain a tough new, long-term liquidity ratio following intense lobbying by the banking industry, according to today’s UK Financial Times newspaper.

BASEL, Switzerland, June 25 (Global Risk Regulator) – Global banking regulators have not discussed, nor agreed to, the elimination of any part of their proposals to strengthen bank capital and liquidity requirements, a spokesman for the Basel Committee of top banking supervisors said in a statement today.

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Plans for reforming the way loan losses are accounted for are too convoluted and costly. And they contribute to accounting split