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Sponsor's article > Basel II: change is good
Basel II is an opportunity for banks to modernize and upgrade their risk practices, policies and technology to manage risk in a holistic fashion. Alliance & Leicester, a UK based financial institution with assets of over €55 billion, took early advantage…
Le Pan takes on group allocation
Nicholas Le Pan, head of the Basel Committee's Accord Implementation Group, must sort out the challenging home-host issue. The success of Basel II depends on it.
HKMA to rule out AMA approach
Hong Kong's banking regulator, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), will not allow the territory's banks to use the advanced measurement approaches (AMA) for measuring operational risk when Basel II is implemented from the end of 2006.
HKMA to rule out AMA approach
Hong Kong’s banking regulator, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), will not allow the territory’s banks to use the advanced measurement approaches (AMA) for measuring operational risk when Basel II is implemented from the end of 2006.
Basel Committee announces "no action" on accounting issues
On Tuesday the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a press release on the potential impact on regulatory capital of the implementation of certain International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
EU Commission publishes "final" CAD text
The European Commission released its final version of the legislative text that will implement the Basel II framework within the European Union at the end of last week.
Interest rate risk principles released by Basel Committee
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released "Principles for the management and supervision of interest rate risk" late last week.
VAR: ready to explode?
The SEC plans to force US securities firms to tighten up their value-at-risk reporting. Its decision comes as VAR at the world’s leading financial services firms soared an average 25.8% last year. Who are the biggest risk-takers, and are risk managers…
UK FSA writes AMA strategy anew
An official from the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) sketched in some details of the regulator's approach to the operational risk portions of Basel II implementation in that country at an operational risk conference held in early July in London.
US Congressman calls for op risk redraft
A Congressman and members of the banking industry lambasted the operational risk capital charge in Basel II at a fresh set of hearings, The New Basel Accord: Private Sector Perspective, held in the House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee…
Basel II Alert - Highlight of Critical Changes
It has been more than six years in the making, but the final text of the Basel II framework has arrived. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the text at the end of June to a mix response from the financial services industry.
Emerging slowly to Basel
Financial institutions in emerging markets are overly optimistic that they will implement Basel II on time, according to a survey conducted by the World Bank. The results were announced at the World Bank advanced risk management workshop in Washington,…
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US regulators outline future Basel II path
Regulatory update
UK FSA writes AMA strategy anew
Regulatory update
Le Pan takes on group allocation
Interview: Nicholas Le Pan
The Accord has landed
Basel II The final framework
Group allocation conflicts heat up
Front Page News
US Congressman calls for op risk redraft
Regulatory update
US baulks (again) at Basel II
Front Page News
Home-hosting gets a roasting
Editor’s letter
VAR: ready to explode?
Cover Story
Emerging slowly to Basel
New Angles