WASHINGTON — After years of concerns that the Basel II accord would lead to drastic capital drops, a study has found that the largest domestic banks may find themselves hoarding more capital ...

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 II is an international capital measurement system. The official name for this system is the ‘International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards – a revised framework’. The ...

When international banking regulators agreed on new capital rules for the world’s leading banks in 2004, they hoped that the so-called Basel II accord would strengthen the global banking system by ...

Under Basel II banks can therefore choose between three systems - a standardized approach, a foundation internal ratings-based (IRB) approach and an advanced IRB approach. A bank's overall regulatory ...

The financial world moves much too fast to tolerate more than a decade of development and startup time for each of the three Basel regimes, writes former FDIC Chairman William M. Isaac. I have long ...

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 ...

In November 2025, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a risk-based capital adequacy requirements directive for banks. Directive No. SBB/95/2025 has given recognition for Basel II and Basel III ...

LONDON, June 11 2007--The implementation of Basel II in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is not expected to have a dramatic impact on the credit ratings of Gulf banks and will improve ...