Basel experts agree asset securitisation treatment

LONDON – Global banking experts have agreed proposals for treating the credit risks for banks of asset securitisation under the complex Basel II capital accord.

The knotty credit risk problem posed by asset securitisation, where a bank pools loans and other credits to its customers and issues new securities against the pool, was the last major outstanding issue with the Basel II accord, a set of risk-based rules on bank protective capital aimed at making the world’s banking system safer.

Technical experts with the Capital Task Force, the senior sub-grouping of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the body that in effect regulates international

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