Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Basel II creates perverse incentives to underestimate credit risk. Says Harald Benink and George Kaufman, ...

Common sense dictates that Basel II should benefit independent small and medium-sized private banks. The overriding rationale for this update to the original Basel Accord of 1988 has been to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Basel II banking regulations are sooooo boring. But Basel II’s effects on securitisation are fascinating, right ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision received feedback from central banks across the world and other stakeholders. Since Basel I’s implementation in 1992, the banking landscape had changed a lot ...

The Basel II Accord marks a significant step in improving the risk processes in banks worldwide and is expected to provide more stability to their operations. Banks see this as an opportunity to ...

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new report by Fitch demystifies the Basel II treatment of asset correlation and provides original empirical analysis of the correlation values assumed under the ...

Basel II, the new capital standard, is expected to be released by June 2004, for implementation starting in January 2007 in G-10 countries. The drafting and public consultation process has been ...

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 ...

Au cours des prochaines années, un certain nombre de pays vont commencer à mettre en application un accord global actualisé concernant le capital bancaire (Basel 11). La nouvelle structure est conçue ...

Released in 2004, Basel II is a pivotal banking regulation framework by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. It strengthens the principles of Basel I by setting comprehensive guidelines for ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial ...