State bank supervisors have joined the chorus of Basel II critics calling on federal regulators to take a go-slow approach to the proposed international accord. Neil Milner, the chief executive ...

WASHINGTON - Banks are getting a firmer handle on how much it will cost to implement international capital standards, and a new survey finds many are questioning if the investment is worth it. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Project will align capital reserve requirements with more precise risk assessments to improve bank’s risk management and satisfy government mandate SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FICO (NYSE:FICO), the ...

Doubts are hovering over the timely implementation of the Basel II capital adequacy mandate in Europe, as the possibility lingers that the European Parliament will fail to clear the ruling smoothly.

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 ...

The banking world was rocked in early 2000 when the Basel II Capital Accord came out with its first draft. This accord emanated from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...