Global Banking News-November 3, 2014--Vietnam's banks to apply
Basel IIThe Basel III capital adequacy standards include key amendments to the
Basel II standards, primarily an increase in the total ratio of the regulatory capital and a redefinition of the regulatory capital as part of a package of criteria targeting quality improvement, he said in an exclusive interview to KUNA.
The
Basel II accord has been prepared on the basis of three pillars: minimum capital requirement, supervisory review process and market discipline.
PWC), the leading firm in providing
Basel II advisory services in its pursuit to strengthen risk management in NBP.
UAE banks must utilise a more diverse range of risk management tools and practices to ensure their competitiveness across the world as
Basel II gets fully implemented, said a study conducted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD).
Egypt's central bank announced earlier this month that shifting to a
Basel II capital adequacy framework will be the main focus of the next wave of banking reforms.
It made some interesting assertions, many of which I support, but I must challenge its statement that the
Basel II capital adequacy regime was somehow to blame.
He addresses this question through interrelated analysis of the following: the rules for domestic bank capital regulation in
Basel II, arguing that the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach of
Basel II, developed during the negotiations and essentially untested, represents, at best, a leap of faith; the contribution of the specifically international character of
Basel II to achieving national policy goals, suggesting that the introducing the IRB approach as a basis for domestic regulation exposes more and more countries to infirmities, while the difficulties of effective monitoring of implementation limits benefits from common adoption; and comparison of alternatives, including the status quo.
MANAMA: The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) will host a workshop on the challenges arising from the implementation of the
Basel II accord.
Since Basel I was introduced it has broadly been adapted in over 100 countries; however, over time, it has became clear that, with increasingly sophisticated products and markets, the risk to which a bank was exposed cannot be accurately assessed with the black-and-white rules of Basel I, so the 1999 Basel Committee introduced
Basel II in response to this.
Intertec Systems sponsors
Basel II Risk Management Forum in DubaiThe event will bring together industry stakeholders involved in Risk Management from leading Local and foreign financial institutions
In the coming weeks, New Zealand banks will release quarterly disclosure statements which will reflect the Reserve Bank's new
Basel II capital adequacy requirements for the first time.
