The set of risk management regulations that are currently gaining steam globally, the Basel II standards, are increasingly falling under critical eyes as the system gains worldwide support. The ...

Regulators said they have reduced to hundreds from thousands the items of information that will be required from banks under the third pillar of Basel II. Pillar 3 will require banks to reveal more ...

WASHINGTON — As problems in the subprime mortgage market continue to unfold, the already complicated process of implementing the proposed Basel II capital rule could grow more so. Key features of ...

Flawed Basel 1 contributed significantly to the sub-prime debacle. Basel II now looks doubly flawed. Its simpler standardised format uses external credit ratings to set risk weights. Its complex ...

The disclosures in this report have been prepared for the West Bromwich Building Society. These disclosures meet the Pillar 3 quantitative and qualitative disclosure requirements. The Pillar 3 ...

The Basel Committee’s revised Pillar 3 framework of 2015 was intended to address shortcomings in the consistency and comparability of firms’ regulatory disclosures. Introducing standardised disclosure ...

Capital matters to most corporations in free markets, but there are differences. Companies in non-financial industries need equity capital mainly to support funding to buy property and to build or ...

Hilary acknowledged that regulators were between “a rock and a hard place” when trying to balance prescriptive rules and principles-based regulation. On one hand, Basel II’s requirements and ...

Basel II is a set of international banking regulations first released in 2004 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. It expanded the rules for minimum capital requirements established under ...

Vietnam International Bank (VIB) has become the first bank in Viet Nam to complete the three pillars of Basel II, which are minimum capital, supervisory review and market discipline. Vietnam ...

The latest Basel II legislation is the subject for a new handbook released by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA). The BMA has published 'Revised Framework for Regulatory Capital Assessment' ...