One of the first tasks of the Trump Treasury Department should be to abandon the Basel regime of banking regulations. These are rules emanating from the Bank for International Settlements, an ...

Below is a lightly edited transcript of the podcast: MARIO DRAGHI: Well I’m actually pleased and proud that we’ve come to this agreement here in Frankfurt today. HANNAH LANG: This is Mario Draghi ...

Risk officers are advocating processes that would allow banks to jointly implement the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), Basel I and Basel II Accords, The Nation has learnt. The IFRS ...

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 ...

The financial world moves much too fast to tolerate more than a decade of development and startup time for each of the three Basel regimes, writes former FDIC Chairman William M. Isaac. I have long ...

In November 2025, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a risk-based capital adequacy requirements directive for banks. Directive No. SBB/95/2025 has given recognition for Basel II and Basel III ...

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 ...

Controversies over too-big-to-fail financial institutions continue to mount. The Basel Accords represent the latest effort to ease risk and restore confidence, as this Backgrounder explains. The ...

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 banking sector will never pick its way through the climate change jungle without harmonized regulations. To meet global risks, a global sector needs global standards. It is time for Basel V. If ...

Despite the soap opera that has become Washington, the Trump Administration will likely succeed or fail on whether it can reignite U.S. economic growth. Regulatory rollback is a big part of its ...