Compendium of documents produced by the
Basle Committee on Banking Supervision
April 1997

COMMITTEE DOCUMENTS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS COMPENDIUM

In addition to the documents contained in this Compendium, the Basle Committee has prepared and circulated numerous other documents that are now effectively out of date and of historic interest only, or which have been superseded by subsequent texts. In addition, there are several texts (marked with an asterix in the list below) which because of space constraints have been included in abbreviated form only. Selected requests for these texts by serious researchers should be addressed to the Committee's Secretariat in Basle.
December 1975 Report to the Governors on the supervision of banks' foreign establishments (original Concordat)
January 1979 Consolidation of banks' balance sheets: aggregation of risk-bearing assets as a method of supervising bank solvency
November 1979 The supervision of country risk in bank lending
November 1979 The treatment of minority participations in the consolidation of banks' balance sheets
December 1981 Banking secrecy and international cooperation in banking supervision
1982 Supervisory systems in Canada, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and United States
February 1983 The capital adequacy of banks operating internationally
August 1987 Document of understanding on practical aspects of international cooperation between banking supervisory authorities
December 1987 Proposals for international convergence of capital measurement and capital standards
February 1991 Proposals for the inclusion of general provisions/general loan-loss reserves in capital*
November 1991 Amendment of the Basle Capital Accord in respect of the inclusion of general provisions/general loan-loss reserves in capital*
April 1993 The supervisory recognition of netting for capital adequacy purposes
April 1993 The supervisory treatment of market risks
April 1993 Cover note for the April 1993 papers
July 1994 Basle Capital Accord: the treatment of the credit risk associated with certain off-balance-sheet items
December 1994 Prudential supervision of banks' derivatives activities
April 1995 Proposal to issue a supplement to the Basle Capital Accord to cover market risks
April 1995 Planned supplement to the Capital Accord to incorporate market risks
April 1995 Basle Capital Accord: treatment of potential exposure for off-balance-sheet items
July 1995 The supervision of financial conglomerates (A report by the Tripartite Group of bank, securities and insurance regulators)*
November 1995 Public disclosure of the trading and derivatives activities of banks and securities firms*
May 1996 Supervising global financial markets (submission to the G-7 Lyon Summit of June 1996)
April 1997 Strengthening banking supervision worldwide (submission to the G-7 Denver Summit of June 1997)

DOCUMENTS ISSUED IN ASSOCIATION WITH OUTSIDE BODIES

October 1979 Disclosures in Financial Statements of banks (International Accounting Standards Committee)
February 1980 Proposed standard interbank confirmation request (issued jointly by the Basle Committee and the International Federation of Accountants)
February 1980 Uniform Rules for Foreign Exchange Contracts (International Chamber of Commerce)
February 1984 Interbank Confirmation Procedures (International Statement issued by the International Federation of Accountants)
February 1990 The audit of international commercial banks (International Statement issued by the International Auditing Practices Committee after consultation with the Basle Committee)
[ Preface ]
[ Volume I: Basic supervisory methods ]
[ Volume II: Advanced supervisory methods ]
[ Volume III: International supervisory issues ]
[ Committee documents not included in this Compendium ]