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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The failure of Europe and the United States to meet next month's deadline on tougher bank capital rules won't derail the global accord, regulators said after they themselves were ...