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This will be a face-to-face course at the BSA offices in London. The objective of this course is to provide participants with an overview of the financial and balance sheet risks a building society faces as a consequence of being a mortgage lender and how these risks ...
This will be a face-to-face course at the BSA offices in London. The objective of this course is to introduce participants to treasury management. It provides an overview of treasury operations within financial services, more specifically within building societies and w...
This will be a face-to-face course at the BSA offices in London. In recent years the recognised career path to mortgage underwriter has changed substantially, partly due to the changing nature of mortgage advice. This intensive two-day course, in partnership with the Ch...
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...