Basel Committee on Banking Supervision/Definition

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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision [r]: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision exchanges information on national supervisory issues and publishes guidelines and supervisory standards. The Committee's members come from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its Secretariat is located at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, and is staffed mainly by professional supervisors on temporary secondment from member institutions. The secretariat also serves as an international advisory agency.