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OSFI delays implementation of new disclosure requirements

The federal financial watchdog has given Canada’s big banks an extension to implement global reforms that establish more consistent disclosure rules to allow them to focus and devote the “significant level of effort required” to implement new international accounting standards for financial instruments.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), globally renown as a dominant and strong regulator, originally adopted an aggressive timeline for the implementation of the revised Pillar 3 standards issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, an international banking regulator – and an equally aggressive stance towards the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 Financial instruments accounting standard, according to financial services experts.

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