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Basel Accord
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Basel Accord
Agreement concluded among country representatives in 1988 in Switzerland to develop standardized risk-based capital requirements for banks across countries.


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With the new proposal of the 1988 Basle Accord suggesting the implementation of discriminatory risk-weightings across rating categories, the prospective change of the current regulatory regime will censure institutional arbitrage on regulatory capital requirements, which has hitherto motivated asset-backed securitisation.
The most recently reported capital ratios of DKB exceed the relevant risk-based capital standards established under the Basle Accord, and the proposed transaction is not expected to have a material effect on the capital of the consolidated organization.
On top of that, banks must scramble to meet the so-called Basle Accord international capital-adequacy standards.
 
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