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, ...
AS BANKS get bigger, they also become smarter. That, at any rate, is the theory underpinning a new set of rules on risks and capital for banks around the world, formally called the “International ...
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 ...
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 ...
After close to six years of rigorous debate and consultation, the final version of Basel II’s credit risk framework was announced at the end of June. Basel II seeks to put in place advanced credit ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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