Following endorsement of its proposed reforms of the Basel II framework at the G20 Seoul Summit in November 2010, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“BCBS”) published the final Basel III ...

On July 27, the three federal banking agencies (the Agencies)[1] jointly proposed changes to the regulatory capital framework applicable to large banks and bank holding companies (the Proposal). The ...

In the past the size of an institution’s balance sheet was a good indication of the risks it was taking; it made sense, therefore, to link regulatory capital requirements to assets. Today, however, ...

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 ...

Banks may struggle to raise funds from insurers due to a conflict between Basel III rules for lenders and Solvency II regulation for insurers, Prudential Plc Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam said ...

Remarks by Joseph Seidel, Chief Operating Officer for SIFMA, as prepared for delivery at SIFMA’s Basel III Endgame Roundtable Part II As Ken noted, the U.S. policymakers who proposed the Basel III ...

Perhaps you have never heard of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) located in Basel, Switzerland. Perhaps you have never heard of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The global "Basel III" deal on bank capital standards was reached at lightning speed by usually glacial regulators -- substantive negotiations took about a year, compared to a ...

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 ...

I recently “attended” an online webinar about Basel III’s proposed new liquidity requirements for banks. My goal in attending the webinar was to get a general idea of how difficult it would be for ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper highlights High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Report on implementation of the Basel II/III Capital ...