The set of risk management regulations that are currently gaining steam globally, the Basel II standards, are increasingly falling under critical eyes as the system gains worldwide support. The ...

Regulators said they have reduced to hundreds from thousands the items of information that will be required from banks under the third pillar of Basel II. Pillar 3 will require banks to reveal more ...

BASEL - The Financial Stability Institute (FSI), part of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which hosts the Basel Committee, has issued the results of its 2008 survey into the international ...

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 current credit crisis threatens to undermine the three pillars of Basel II, with serious implications for those charged with compliance. Basel II’s intent is to “ensure capital allocation is more ...

HANOI, Vietnam, July 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank - Vietnam) held an announcement ceremony of the completion of the second pillar of Basel II - Internal ...

Flawed Basel 1 contributed significantly to the sub-prime debacle. Basel II now looks doubly flawed. Its simpler standardised format uses external credit ratings to set risk weights. Its complex ...

Capital matters to most corporations in free markets, but there are differences. Companies in non-financial industries need equity capital mainly to support funding to buy property and to build or ...

Only five per cent of banks have finished and fully integrated their Basel II Pillar Two systems, according to a survey by software firm SunGard. The Basel II financial regulations are built on three ...

Vietnam International Bank (VIB) has become the first bank in Viet Nam to complete the three pillars of Basel II, which are minimum capital, supervisory review and market discipline. Vietnam ...