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 ...

WASHINGTON -- It was in October, in Jaime Caruana's home city of Madrid, that the top banking regulators from around the world finally decided to see this thing through. Members of the Basel Committee ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators have done an about-face by agreeing to consider updating the Basel I capital rules for small and regional banks. Change is not guaranteed, and even if the amendments ...

Basel II is a complex new standard for measuring risk in financial services firms that has been published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which is a committee of the Bank for ...

On November 5, 2007 the four U.S. bank regulatory agencies approved the final implementation of the rule to implement the Basel II Accord on Capital Adequacy. Proponents argue that the new approach ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doubts are hovering over the timely implementation of the Basel II capital adequacy mandate in Europe, as the possibility lingers that the European Parliament will fail to clear the ruling smoothly.

BASEL, SWITZERLAND -- Global banking regulators don't foresee lengthy talks with banks when they issue their third and final consultation paper next year on the complex and much-delayed Basel II bank ...

An update of Basel I, Basel II was published in June 2004. The revised accord aimed to improve the consistency of capital regulations internationally, make regulatory capital more risk sensitive, and ...