Basel Committee
Basel II package rapporteur named
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The poet of risk regulation
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Using transaction data to measure op risk
Since 1999, Peter Hughes has led a team of op risk specialists that has studied transaction processing environments in global banking organisations. The focus was on examining and understanding the causes of operational failure. The information and…
Basel II realities kick in for emerging markets
The emerging markets might find compliance with the new Basel Accord a struggle, but ambitions are high. And the pressure is on for regulators to be seen to be adopting Basel II within the international community.
Basel II praised for ERM framework
The new Basel Accord (Basel II) provides the most comprehensive enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) framework for banks because it provides for operational risk management that goes far beyond compliance, says Virginia Garcia, senior analyst at…
Credit derivatives professionals slam IAS
Financial market participants have slammed International Accounting Standard 39 (IAS 39) for financial hedge instruments, according to a British Bankers’ Association (BBA) credit derivatives survey.
Basel II simplifies management of credit portfolios, says BIS
Basel II will facilitate early detection of the quality of a credit portfolio because it allows for progressive estimation of the probability of default (PD) of borrowers, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Basel II simplifies management of credit portfolios, says BIS
Basel II will facilitate early detection of the quality of a credit portfolio because it allows for progressive estimation of the probability of default (PD) of borrowers, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
FSA vague on AMA waiver pack approach
The UK Financial Services Authority is remaining tantalisingly vague about its potential approach to a waiver pack for those banks who wish to apply for the advanced measurement approach (AMA), say industry executives.
Book extract > Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Operational Risk Data: A Bayesian Approach
The aim of this chapter is to provide a Bayesian model thatallows us to manage operational risk and measure internally thecapital requirement, compliant with the Advanced MeasurementApproaches (AMA) recommended by Basel Committee on BankingSupervision …
Basel II simplifies management of credit portfolios, says BIS
Basel II will facilitate early detection of the quality of a credit portfolio because it allows for progressive estimation of the probability of default (PD) of borrowers, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Sponsor's article > The Home Host Headache
Basel II's advanced measurement approach (AMA) requires that the operational risk capital charge be allocated to banks' international subsidiaries. This means that individual banks will have to run multiple AMA models to meet multiple local regulatory…
Compliance: The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Regulatory compliance means different things in Europe and the States. Waters looks at who's ahead and how culture helps define the solutions.
Critical voices
The final Basel II framework has been welcomed by banks, regulators and industry bodies around the globe, but there are still some concerns about certain aspects of the Accord. Bob Pickel, chief executive of Isda, gives the association's views on the new…
HKMA takes the lead
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has put together its national implementation guidelines for Basel II, making it one of the first regulators globally to detail its qualifying criteria for those banks aiming for the internal ratings-based approaches in…
Sponsor's article > Portman Building Society Selects SunGard's Basel II Capital Manager
SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, an operating group of SunGard (NYSE:SDS), has announced that UK-based Portman Building Society has chosen SunGard's Basel II Capital Manager to help it to comply with the new Basel II regulations and to achieve best…
HK details framework
Regulatory update
Basel II realities kick in for emerging markets
Basel II emerging markets
FSA vague on AMA waiver pack approach
Regulatory update
A guiding light for outsourcing
Special focus ERM
Architecture and compensation
The risk architect
Data crisis coming, says S&P
Financial institutions must start sorting through their large amounts of credit risk data to recognise the right information they need for the purposes of Basel II credit risk measurements, according to Ken Hoffman, the director of Digital Feed Products,…
EU CAD: behind the smiles
The industry is putting on a brave face when commenting on the latest proposals for the EU Capital Adequacy Directive, but all is not as it seems.