In recent weeks the new Basel capital accord has come under fierce attack from opponents who charge that the accord will have serious, unintended consequences. For instance, former FDIC chairman ...

Explore the Federal Reserve's Market Risk Capital Rule, its alignment with Basel III, and its impact on bank stability amid financial risks.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...