International banking regulators are preparing to strip down their recommendations on how to ensure the industry's financial strength, following months of wrangling.
In a bid to ensure the time- table for announcing the reforms can go ahead as planned in November, a consensus within the Basel Committee is now suggesting that the radical blueprint of global proposals published six months ago should be thinned down, according to regulators and bankers.
That would allow the committee, which oversees global banking regulation, to publish a basic foundation for the new Basel III rules on time, without resolving disagreements on many of its most contentious proposals on capital, liquidity and leverage.