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 ...

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 ...

Agreement concluded among country representatives in 1988 in Basel, Switzerland to develop standardized risk-based capital requirements for banks across countries. The Accord is also known as 1988 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Basel II accord on capital adequacy is set for implementation in 2006, with full implementation latest by 2008. Indeed a great deal has been written about the subject, and yet there could well be ...