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Takeaways from the Basel III............>

SWITZERLAND
SWITZERLAND: Takeaways from the Basel III announcement from last night:
- Implementation of new regulations have been pushed back from 2019 to 2022
- Banks can only reduce risk assessments for capital consumption purposes using
internal models by 72.5% relative to the 'Standardised approach' model.
- Credit risk modelling has suffered from new rules that hurt systemically
important institutions in particular.
- Government Bonds will retain their preferential (0% credit risk weight)
treatment in liquidity and capital regulation; no agreement was reached, just
postponed. This is good news for lower quality government paper and might sit
behind some of the strong performance of Greek debt today.

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