The comparisons of three models of evaluation of minimum capital requirements for operational risk are considered. We examine a method of evaluation of volume of capital suffi-cient to cover losses due to different types of damage distributed by the Normal, Binomial and Poisson laws.

The paper examines the principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates proposed by BCBS in the consultative document published in December 2011. Moreover, the article proposes a number of suggestions worked out by the authors within the HSE research team.

Board published consultation document 26.10.2011, which regulates a number of principles for mortgage lending. This article provides an overview of the principles and analysis of their characteristics. This article continues the series that review the proposed regulatory measures for the banking system at the international and country levels worked out by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

This study shows that the current institutional environment leads to the domination of cross-border tax and capital optimization strategies in Russian banking sector business model. Money supply and demand mechanisms do not stimulate the loans, investments and other banking services growth in target sectors, enabling Russian economy innovative structural adjustment and independence. Therefore, to improve the Russian banking sector social and economic efficiency needs to develop institutions, impeding the community negative of banking business model and stimulate its transformation towards the long-term strategies based on key factors supporting national economy innovative growth.