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 ...

The U.S. and French governments are divided over the need for a new set of capital adequacy rules to replace the Basel II standards that took more than a decade to negotiate, according to a source in ...

Basel II is a complex new standard for measuring risk in financial services firms that has been published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which is a committee of the Bank for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This Technical Assistance Report on Zimbabwe discusses the Financial Sector Stability Review follow-up technical assistance ...

BASEL, SWITZERLAND -- Global banking regulators don't foresee lengthy talks with banks when they issue their third and final consultation paper next year on the complex and much-delayed Basel II bank ...

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 ...

International efforts are underway to improve the regulation and supervision of banking institutions to reflect advances in financial risk management techniques. In April 2003, the Basel Committee on ...