Basel Committee

Gross income - what’s in a name?

Banking regulators are pondering whether to change the title ‘gross income’ as currently applied in the simpler approaches for measuring op risk under the Basel II banking accord.

Regulators study terms for abolishing op risk floor

Global banking regulators have asked their technical experts to look at what kind of conditions need to exist in order to get rid of the floor that limits the potential gains for banks using advanced approaches to measuring op risk under the Basel II…

A cost/benefit approach to Basel II

The cost of implementing Basel II could put banks at a competitive disadvantage compared with non-banks, and spur them to ‘de-bank’ to avoid this regulatory burden. Harry Stordel and Andrew Cross say regulators must look at the provisions from a cost…

Weaving an integrated solution

A treacherous credit environment and growing awareness of the danger of credit and market risk correlation have convinced financial institutions that they need to evaluate these exposures together. To get a unified view, will they need to adopt unified…

EU bank regulation debate intensifies

The debate over banking supervision in the European Union intensified in April as Britain and Germany argued for keeping regulation under the aegis of national regulators, while many central bankers argued that the role should be left to the European…

Basel II op risk survey planned for June 1

Global banking regulators hope to issue another survey on June 1 seeking information from banks on their operational losses, in order to help with the development of the Basel II bank capital adequacy accord, said regulators in late April.

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