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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the timetable for introducing the new Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) was published in December 2001, 2006 -- the date set for implementation -- seemed a long way off. But in fact, banks only ...

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 ...

BearingPoint, one of the world's largest business consulting and systems integration firms, has issued a white paper, "Seven Pitfalls In Basel II Operational Risk Implementation," detailing the steps ...

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 ...