While U.S. regulators continue to clash over the Basel II capital plan, a lending and risk management trade group weighed in Wednesday with recommendations on how to resolve some of the major sticking ...

WASHINGTON — After years of concerns that the Basel II accord would lead to drastic capital drops, a study has found that the largest domestic banks may find themselves hoarding more capital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the timetable for introducing the new Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) was published in December 2001, 2006 -- the date set for implementation -- seemed a long way off. But in fact, banks only ...

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 ...