International bank regulators are conducting at least 17 case studies to prepare for the Basel II capital rules set to take effect in January 2008, according to Nicholas Le Pan, Canada’s top bank ...

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 current financial market turmoil has sparked debates across the globe about the supervision and regulation of the financial services industry. As the Basel II capital framework is implemented ...

This note provides factual updates on material recent developments with respect to the implementation of Basel II in member countries since the circulation of the paper prepared by Fund and World Bank ...

Capital adequacy requirements are the rules that help bank supervisors determine whether banks hold sufficient capital at all times to meet unexpected losses. The New Capital Adequacy Framework ...

BearingPoint, one of the world's largest business consulting and systems integration firms, has issued a white paper, "Seven Pitfalls In Basel II Operational Risk Implementation," detailing the steps ...

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 ...

Do you think Basel II has been given the attention it requires in the US? I think the subprime issue has moved it forward a little more than previously, as regulators were forced to come to a ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve wants to hear from banks about their efforts to implement the Basel II capital agreement, Federal Reserve Gov. Susan Schmidt Bies said in prepared ...

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.

01 May 2005 The Central Bank of the UAE, while taking steps to implement Basel II, held its third seminar "Disclosure under Basel-II / IFRS" on 26th April 2005. The focus of the seminar was Market ...