The Basel Accords established capital requirements and risk measurements for global banks. The Basel Accords are a series of three sequential banking regulation agreements (Basel I, II, and III) set ...

The financial world moves much too fast to tolerate more than a decade of development and startup time for each of the three Basel regimes, writes former FDIC Chairman William M. Isaac. I have long ...

After eight years of contentious wrangling, federal regulators said Friday that they would issue a single, uniform Basel II capital rule for the 11 largest banks as soon as early September. A plan to ...

Basel II is a set of international banking regulations first released in 2004 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. It expanded the rules for minimum capital requirements established under ...

Two hours of CE credits have been applied for in the states of NY, NJ and the Appraisal Institute. The Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Appraisal Institute is presenting an extraordinary panel of ...

During the next two to three years, major financial institutions that must meet the New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) guidelines must work to ensure that they have the appropriate IT infrastructure ...

LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday reached a deal to implement the final batch of tougher bank capital rules agreed internationally following the global financial crisis over a ...

When international banking regulators agreed on new capital rules for the world’s leading banks in 2004, they hoped that the so-called Basel II accord would strengthen the global banking system by ...

Many major financial institutions are working to meet New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) guidelines, tentatively, by 2007. Given the effort's complexity, urgency, and ongoing nature, it creates a ...

International efforts are underway to improve the regulation and supervision of banking institutions to reflect advances in financial risk management techniques. In April 2003, the Basel Committee on ...

The Basel Accords have, over time, shaped the development of the financial markets as different products become more or less attractive for banks to offer and businesses to take up on a risk-adjusted ...

This book is essential reading for any financial practitioner affected by the Basel II accord, including chief financial officers, chief operating officers, chief investment officers, risk managers, ...