Basel Committee
Enterprise-wide risk management: Knitting together bank risks
Thanks to recent events, bank risk managers are placing more emphasis on integrating counterparty and credit risk into other portions of their enterprise-wide risk management systems.
Credit and credibility
Credit risk modellers have made giant strides, but they still have to convince regulators that they can make the world a safer place.
Hong Kong banks lagging in preparation for Basel II
Hong Kong's banks are lagging their European counterparts in preparing for Basel II with most still at the early stages of project planning, according to a report by consultants KPMG.
Hong Kong banks lagging in preparation for Basel II
Hong Kong’s banks are lagging their European counterparts in preparing for Basel II with most still at the early stages of project planning, according to a report by consultants KPMG.
Trade associations launch IRB survey
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Risk Management Association and the British Bankers' Association today launched a survey of the validation of banks' internal credit ratings, a key element underlying the internal ratings-based …
Trade associations launch IRB survey
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Risk Management Association and the British Bankers' Association today launched a survey of the validation of banks' internal credit ratings, a key element underlying the internal ratings-based …
Cad 3 - Against their will [full story]
Europe's asset management industry is chiding Brussels bureaucrats for trying to bury it under a mountain of Basel-inspired regulation, which could boost costs and capital charges.
Small firms welcome EU proposals
BRUSSELS - European investment firms welcomed the European Commission's decision to create a special regime for them in terms of the operational risk provisions of proposed new capital adequacy rules, according to trade bodies representing the firms.
Commission highlights weak points of op risk insurance
BRUSSELS - The European Commission highlighted in November major drawbacks to the use of operational risk insurance to reduce op risk capital charges, despite its readiness to explore a wider use of insurance than that proposed in the Basel II bank…
EU spells out pillar 2 powers
BRUSSELS – The European Commission seems to have spelled out how it sees the second pillar – supervisory review – of its new bank capital rules in greater detail than global banking regulators have so far done for the Basel II accord, banking industry…
Basel Committee expects to meet tight QIS 3 schedule
BASEL – Global banking regulators believe they will be able to keep to their tight schedule for examining the results of the key QIS 3 survey of banks and publishing the third consultative paper on the Basel II accord on bank safety in May.
Academic voices dissatisfaction with Basel II
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision still has a great deal of work to do before the Basel II capital accord can be successfully implemented at financial institutions, Jacques Pézier, director of the risk management group of the ISMA Centre at the…
Basel II to boost both large and small banks' loan prices
The prices of some loan products for retail and middle-market corporate clients will almost certainly rise when banks implement the Basel II capital Accord in 2006, according to speakers at Risk 's Capital Allocation 2002 USA conference this morning.
Basel II to boost both large and small banks' loan prices
The prices of some loan products for retail and middle-market corporate clients will almost certainly rise when banks implement the Basel II capital Accord in 2006, according to speakers at Risk ’s Capital Allocation 2002 USA conference this morning.
Basel II unlikely to cause marked cut in lending to emerging markets, says Bank of England
LONDON - The proposed Basel II bank accord seems unlikely to cause a marked contraction in lending to borrowers in emerging markets, even low quality borrowers, the Bank of England said today.
Basel II unlikely to cause marked cut in emerging markets lending, says Bank of England
The proposed Basel II bank Accord seems unlikely to cause a marked contraction in lending to borrowers in emerging markets, even low quality borrowers, the Bank of England said today.
Against their will
Cad 3
S&P says Basel II helping to improve German banking
FRANKFURT – The proposed Basel II bank safety rules, weak operating performance and shareholder value considerations are behind a trend to more efficient capital allocation, prudent cost control and risk-adjusted pricing in German banking, a leading…
Basel II helping to improve German banking, says S&P
The proposed Basel II bank safety rules, weak operating performance and shareholder value considerations are behind a trend to more efficient capital allocation, prudent cost control and risk-adjusted pricing in German banking, a leading credit rating…
European asset managers gear up for CAD3
European asset management firms wanting to comply with the most sophisticated measurement method allowed in the revised Basel Accords—the advanced measurement approach (AMA)—must prepare now, as it requires them to have a whole set of advanced risk…
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