While U.S. regulators continue to clash over the Basel II capital plan, a lending and risk management trade group weighed in Wednesday with recommendations on how to resolve some of the major sticking ...

The financial industry?s largest banks and broker-dealers have faced considerable challenges in their efforts to improve financial risk management and satisfy evolving regulatory requirements ...

Basel II is a complex new standard for measuring risk in financial services firms that has been published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which is a committee of the Bank for ...

For the last eight years the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) has struggled to replace the original Accord on Capital Adequacy (Basel I) with a new Accord (Basel II). At the ...

During the next two to three years, major financial institutions that must meet the New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) guidelines must work to ensure that they have the appropriate IT infrastructure ...

An update of Basel I, Basel II was published in June 2004. The revised accord aimed to improve the consistency of capital regulations internationally, make regulatory capital more risk sensitive, and ...

When the timetable for introducing the new Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) was published in December 2001, 2006 -- the date set for implementation -- seemed a long way off. But in fact, banks only ...

BearingPoint, one of the world's largest business consulting and systems integration firms, has issued a white paper, "Seven Pitfalls In Basel II Operational Risk Implementation," detailing the steps ...

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 ...

BASEL, SWITZERLAND -- Global banking regulators don't foresee lengthy talks with banks when they issue their third and final consultation paper next year on the complex and much-delayed Basel II bank ...