New capital rules are being written by international regulators to update the 1988 Basel Accord. Here in the U.S. these so-called Basel II rules will take effect in early 2008 and cover only to the ...

Learn how risk-weighted assets are used to determine solvency ratio requirements under the Basel III accord, and see how capital requirements have increased.

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 ...

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 ...

The Committee planned to improve the current Basel Accord by aligning banks' regulatory capital requirements more closely to their true economic capital. This approach called for a far greater ...

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 ...

Two hours of CE credits have been applied for in the states of NY, NJ and the Appraisal Institute. The Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Appraisal Institute is presenting an extraordinary panel of ...

Many major financial institutions are working to meet New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) guidelines, tentatively, by 2007. Given the effort's complexity, urgency, and ongoing nature, it creates a ...

Like the unseen rule-master in the British television show Big Brother, the Basel Accord encourages infantile behaviour among its charges. Within the confines of the system, rational, intelligent ...

Every Mankatoan, Minnesotan and U.S. citizen ought to be concerned about the proposed implementation of Basel III Endgame. This devious accord began being rolled out back in the late 1980s (Basel I at ...