Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Basel II creates perverse incentives to underestimate credit risk. Says Harald Benink and George Kaufman, ...

Common sense dictates that Basel II should benefit independent small and medium-sized private banks. The overriding rationale for this update to the original Basel Accord of 1988 has been to ...

For the last eight years the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) has struggled to replace the original Accord on Capital Adequacy (Basel I) with a new Accord (Basel II). At the ...

The Basel II Accord marks a significant step in improving the risk processes in banks worldwide and is expected to provide more stability to their operations. Banks see this as an opportunity to ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision received feedback from central banks across the world and other stakeholders. Since Basel I’s implementation in 1992, the banking landscape had changed a lot ...

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new report by Fitch demystifies the Basel II treatment of asset correlation and provides original empirical analysis of the correlation values assumed under the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. T he current financial market turmoil underscores the importa­nce of strongly capitalised banking systems. It ...

The second axis of the regulatory framework is based on internal controls and supervisory review. It required banks to have internal systems and models to evaluate their capital requirements in ...

Basel II, the new capital standard, is expected to be released by June 2004, for implementation starting in January 2007 in G-10 countries. The drafting and public consultation process has been ...

Au cours des prochaines années, un certain nombre de pays vont commencer à mettre en application un accord global actualisé concernant le capital bancaire (Basel 11). La nouvelle structure est conçue ...

The banking world was rocked in early 2000 when the Basel II Capital Accord came out with its first draft. This accord emanated from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is an ...