THE central bank’s policy-setting Monetary Board (MB) decided over the weekend to give banks until the end of 2017 to comply with the Basel III leverage ratio, citing the latest revisions to the global standards by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).

“The MB decided on the deferment, considering BCBS’ issuance of the consultative document, ‘Revisions to the Basel III leverage ratio framework’ in April 2016, which the BCBS is set to finalize by end-2016,” the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said in a statement.

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