One of the first tasks of the Trump Treasury Department should be to abandon the Basel regime of banking regulations. These are rules emanating from the Bank for International Settlements, an ...

The Basel Accords have, over time, shaped the development of the financial markets as different products become more or less attractive for banks to offer and businesses to take up on a risk-adjusted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two hours of CE credits have been applied for in the states of NY, NJ and the Appraisal Institute. The Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Appraisal Institute is presenting an extraordinary panel of ...

To enable the global banking sector to function efficiently, a set of international banking agreements called the Basel Accords were developed by an international committee on banking supervision. The ...

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 ...

Released in 2004, Basel II is a pivotal banking regulation framework by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. It strengthens the principles of Basel I by setting comprehensive guidelines for ...

Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) are expected to start a parallel run of both Basel I and II minimum capital adequacy computation before the end of the month, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said. In ...