International guidelines on addressing bank weakness

The Basel Committee of the Bank for International Settlements recently issued “Guidelines for identifying and dealing with weak banks,” which discusses the supervisory tools that should be available to banking supervisors to help them identify and deal with weakness at banking organizations, including the ultimate weapon of closure and resolution. This column will compare the general supervisory tools U.S. bank regulators have to identify and address weakness at U.S. banking offices of non-U.S. banks (branches and agencies) to the guidelines.

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