The Basel regulatory framework: evolution of its textual complexity

James Brookes, Matthew Everitt and Quynh-Anh Vo

The Basel III framework put in place in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis 2007–08 consists of a range of regulatory standards, each addressing a specific source of financial instability. Its implementation has however led to active discussion about whether the complexity of financial regulations has materially increased. This blog post presents insights from an analysis on the evolution of textual complexity of the Basel framework.

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Izzy Whizzy let’s get Vizzy – The magic of using visualisation to analyse and understand data.

Lyndsey Pereira-Brereton.

Like Sooty, the BBC’s yellow bear loved by generations of British children, central banks should wave the ‘magic wand’ of data visualisation over their large, granular or complex data sets, in order to gain further insight into the patterns and relationships contained within them. This blog draws on some examples to highlight how different visualisation techniques help not only the communication of data, but more importantly, how it can aid data exploration, analysis and understanding.

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