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 ...

Over the past year the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has refined its approach to setting minimum capital requirements for operational risk (see “Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk” in ...

An update of Basel I, Basel II was published in June 2004. The revised accord aimed to improve the consistency of capital regulations internationally, make regulatory capital more risk sensitive, and ...

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 ...

This note provides factual updates on material recent developments with respect to the implementation of Basel II in member countries since the circulation of the paper prepared by Fund and World Bank ...

BearingPoint, one of the world's largest business consulting and systems integration firms, has issued a white paper, "Seven Pitfalls In Basel II Operational Risk Implementation," detailing the steps ...

The global financial crisis revealed the inadequacy of Basel II capital requirements for banks and exposed its loopholes. As a result, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has come up ...

Earlier this week, Stefan Ingves (left), chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s governing body, and Mervyn King announced amendments to Basel III’s liquidity rules for banks. AAP ...

The crisis revealed that many banks had too little capital to absorb losses, were funded with too much debt and not enough equity, and were prone to illiquidity. Basel 2, the previous set of standards ...

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 ...