Written by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, released in August 2010, 57 pages, available at http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs175.htm
This paper written by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a subcommittee of the Bank for International Settlements, which is an intergovernmental organization of central banks, reviews the applicability of its 2006 Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision [1], the de facto standard on prudential regulation and supervision of banks, to the emerging class of microfinance institutions (MFIs), including both depositing-taking MFIs and cooperatives.