Invest Europe-PAE

Response to BCBS Consultation on Step-In Risk

Positions & consultation responses

17 Mar 2016

In order to ensure that banks will continue to be able to provide necessary services to the private equity industry, the PAE encourages the Basel Committee (BCBS) to review its proposed approach, and in particular the definition of “sponsor”, to avoid capturing bank activities that it believes do not entail any step-in risk. This risk mainly stems from the ambiguity over the concepts of ‘credit enhancement’ and ‘placing securities into the market’.