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Version date: 25 April 2024 - onwards
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Principle 13 - Home-host relationships (paras. 40.30-40.31) (effective as of 25 April 2024)

40.30 Principle 13: [Reference documents: Financial Stability Board (FSB), Key attributes of effective resolution regimes for financial institutions, October 2014; BCBS, Principles for effective supervisory colleges, June 2014; BCBS, Home-host information sharing for effective Basel II implementation, June 2006; BCBS, High-level principles for the cross-border implementation of the New Accord, August 2003; BCBS, Shell banks and booking offices, January 2003; BCBS, The supervision of cross-border banking, October 1996; BCBS, Information flows between banking supervisory authorities, April 1990; BCBS, Principles for the supervision of banks’ foreign establishments, May 1983.] Home and host supervisors of cross-border banking groups share information and cooperate for effective supervision of the group and group entities, and effective handling of crisis situations. Supervisors require the local operations of foreign banks to be conducted to the same standards as those required of domestic banks.

40.31 Essential criteria: