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 ...

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 ...

New regulatory and accounting rules may change banks securitisation strategies, but the new rules should not change banks’ ratings, says Fitch Ratings in a new report. The rating agency says that the ...

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 ...

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand today announced that it will allow both the "Internal Ratings Based" and "Advanced Measurement" Approaches in the implementation of the Basel II capital framework in ...

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 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will begin implementing the revised framework of Basel II in January 2012 after successfully finalising the action plan. Central bank governor Gideon Gono ...

The new law requires the Comptroller General to report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives "on ...

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 ...

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 ...