Learn how the Advanced Internal Rating-Based (AIRB) approach helps financial institutions internally assess credit risk using ...

WASHINGTON - Over the next two months the world's top banking regulators will put the finishing touches on an international risk-based capital agreement that has been in the works since 1998. The road ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON A Government Accountability Office report Wednesday urged regulators to evaluate whether new Basel II reforms will truly fix the capital inadequacies highlighted by the crisis. The 130-page ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

International efforts are underway to improve the regulation and supervision of banking institutions to reflect advances in financial risk management techniques. In April 2003, the Basel Committee on ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FICO (NYSE:FICO), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, today announced that the National Commercial Bank (NCB), the largest bank in the Arab ...

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 ...