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 ...

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 ...

This book is essential reading for any financial practitioner affected by the Basel II accord, including chief financial officers, chief operating officers, chief investment officers, risk managers, ...

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 ...

Learn how the Advanced Internal Rating-Based (AIRB) approach helps financial institutions internally assess credit risk using ...

After eight years of contentious wrangling, federal regulators said Friday that they would issue a single, uniform Basel II capital rule for the 11 largest banks as soon as early September. A plan to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...