While U.S. regulators continue to clash over the Basel II capital plan, a lending and risk management trade group weighed in Wednesday with recommendations on how to resolve some of the major sticking ...

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 ...

On November 5, 2007 the four U.S. bank regulatory agencies approved the final implementation of the rule to implement the Basel II Accord on Capital Adequacy. Proponents argue that the new approach ...

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 ...

An update of Basel I, Basel II was published in June 2004. The revised accord aimed to improve the consistency of capital regulations internationally, make regulatory capital more risk sensitive, and ...

For the last eight years the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) has struggled to replace the original Accord on Capital Adequacy (Basel I) with a new Accord (Basel II). At the ...

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 ...

The world’s top bankers and banking regulators have signed of on a new capital-adequacy framework for global banks known as Basel II. But many of the world’s largest banks see significant challenges ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. banking agencies on Friday announced a revised timeline for implementing the Basel II agreement about capital requirements. Agencies including the Federal Reserve said ...