Basel III aims to stabilize global banking, reduce risk, and impact financial markets, ensuring a more resilient economic ...
As cross-country contacts between financial markets and institutions became more numerous and more complex, so did efforts to create a coherent framework for coordinating the activities of central ...
Like the unseen rule-master in the British television show Big Brother, the Basel Accord encourages infantile behaviour among its charges. Within the confines of the system, rational, intelligent ...
The Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) today announced preliminary findings from a recent survey of its members regarding Basel II Implementation Risk. The survey of over ...
The credit crunch has thrown a spotlight on the inadequacies of the Basel system of bank regulation. The system loosens regulations when they should be tightened, and contains several glaring and ...
Regulators will need significant feedback from the banking industry to develop the final capital adequacy regimes that will apply, reasonably consistently, in all major countries, Kevin Ryan of the UK ...
Proposals to reform the banking system generally fall into two types. The first type are proposals for more regulation—such as that entailed by the Basel accords and the Dodd–Frank Act. However, these ...
Basel III is an international agreement designed to improve stability in the banking industry in the aftermath of the 2007-09 crisis. The agreement begins with a light touch but phases in over the ...
The Basel Committee identifies global systemically important financial institutions and calculates capital surcharges to make government bailouts less likely—but are the capital charges set by the ...