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Due to Covid-19, this year's physical event has been cancelled and we'll be moving to an online format. It's anticipated that the event will be presented in two separate sessions during the 7th and 8th October. This page will be updated with the content and timings as soo...
The BSA welcomes the Government’s commitment to achieving strong, sustainable and balanced growth that is more evenly shared across the country and between industries. BSA members all have their main operational headquarters away from the City of London, and are a significant ...
The Building Societies Association (BSA) welcomes the opportunity to respond, briefly, to DP 1/14. Our comments mainly address the DP’s Question 1, on scope, and are provided from the perspective of BSA members, who will generally be external users of critical shared payme...
Introduction The Building Societies Association represents mutual lenders and deposit takers in the UK including all 47 UK building societies. Mutual lenders and deposit takers have total assets of over £375 billion and, together with their subsidiaries, hold residentia...
We welcome the slight reduction in the MELL budget but argue for more detail on "strategic change" expenditure. Click here for the response.
We welcome this initiative from Commissioner Hill and his team at the new DG FISMA, going beyond the narrow remit in CRD 4, asking the right questions, setting the right tone of enquiry and openness, not imprisoned by past decisions. We particularly welcome the material on pro...
The BSA is pleased to contribute to the EBA’s consultation : as all our members are specialised residential mortgage lenders, the majority using the standardised approach, this matter is of great importance to us. For that reason, we concentrate in this response on RWs for l...
The Building Societies Association provides this brief response to the BCBS consultation. (Read the full response here .) The BSA’s members, the 44 UK building societies, all experience interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB,) though none is a “Basel bank” – i.e....
Comments by The Building Societies Association on the Financial Services Authority DP24 Introduction 1. This paper sets out the brief comments of The Building Societies Association on the Financial Services Authority's Discussion Paper 24 Liquidity risk in the Int...
Summary The BSA supports the development of an effective regime for bank resolution. We agree that failing deposit-takers need to be able to be resolved safely, without the taxpayer bailouts or massive calls on FSCS levy payers which were a feature of the banking crisis (a...
Comment We welcome the overall 7.4% reduction in the budgeted FSCS management expenses but continue to be frustrated by the lack of detail about this expenditure, and therefore lack of opportunity to comment on it. An almost permanent feature of MELL budgets is th...
Introduction The Building Societies Association represents mutual lenders and deposit takers in the UK including all 45 UK building societies. Building societies have total assets of nearly £330 billion and, together with their subsidiaries, hold residential mortgages o...
Background 1. On 28 September, HMT wrote to the BSA and to eligible institutions outlining its intention to start the review. One of the issues the review will address is the impact of the scheme on participating institutions since 2007. We were asked to frame our comments...
Our question to the EBA on the scope of FINREP Topic : Supervisory reporting Legal act : Capital Requirements Regulation Legal reference : Article 99, paragraphs 2 - 4 Subject matter : Scope of application of FINREP Our question concerns paragraph 4. Does it empo...
Introduction The Building Societies Association represents mutual lenders and deposit takers in the UK including all 45 UK building societies. Mutual lenders and deposit takers have total assets of nearly £380 billion and, together with their subsidiaries, hold resident...