The employment conditions DI in the June Tankan Survey – the Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan – shows that more and more firms, particularly in the non-manufacturing sector, feel that there is a labor shortage. BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  The year-on-year rate of increase in the number of regular employees has been around 1.5 percent (Chart 3).
As part of the process to finalise the Basel III package, the Group of Governors and Heads of 3/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  Supervision (GHoS), the oversight body of the BCBS, set out a work programme for the Committee to finalise its work to reduce excessive risk weight variability in risk-weighted assets, as well as the calibration of the leverage ratio.