Even when the end came at Chelsea for Jose Mourinho precisely six years ago, it was a draw that did for him against Rosenborg - ending months of strife and simmering resentment. In those days a draw ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Basel II creates perverse incentives to underestimate credit risk. Says Harald Benink and George Kaufman, ...
AS BANKS get bigger, they also become smarter. That, at any rate, is the theory underpinning a new set of rules on risks and capital for banks around the world, formally called the “International ...
The Basel II Accord marks a significant step in improving the risk processes in banks worldwide and is expected to provide more stability to their operations. Banks see this as an opportunity to ...
Basel II, the new capital standard, is expected to be released by June 2004, for implementation starting in January 2007 in G-10 countries. The drafting and public consultation process has been ...
The second axis of the regulatory framework is based on internal controls and supervisory review. It required banks to have internal systems and models to evaluate their capital requirements in ...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision received feedback from central banks across the world and other stakeholders. Since Basel I’s implementation in 1992, the banking landscape had changed a lot ...
Common sense dictates that Basel II should benefit independent small and medium-sized private banks. The overriding rationale for this update to the original Basel Accord of 1988 has been to ...
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 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. T he current financial market turmoil underscores the importa­nce of strongly capitalised banking systems. It ...
Aston Villa scrape past Basel and seal a narrow 2-1 win in the Europa League on Thursday, thanks to super-substitute Youri Tielemans' winner.