International bank regulators are conducting at least 17 case studies to prepare for the Basel II capital rules set to take effect in January 2008, according to Nicholas Le Pan, Canada’s top bank ...

Over the years since the first proposed revision of the Basel Accord on Capital Adequacy (Basel II), the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee has criticized the Basel Committee’s proposals ...

New regulatory and accounting rules may change banks securitisation strategies, but the new rules should not change banks’ ratings, says Fitch Ratings in a new report. The rating agency says that the ...

Capital adequacy requirements are the rules that help bank supervisors determine whether banks hold sufficient capital at all times to meet unexpected losses. The New Capital Adequacy Framework ...

The current financial market turmoil has sparked debates across the globe about the supervision and regulation of the financial services industry. As the Basel II capital framework is implemented ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. banking agencies on Friday announced a revised timeline for implementing the Basel II agreement about capital requirements. Agencies including the Federal Reserve said ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve wants to hear from banks about their efforts to implement the Basel II capital agreement, Federal Reserve Gov. Susan Schmidt Bies said in prepared ...