Add another item to the long list of issues straining U.S.-European relations: bank regulation. Some U.S. bankers, regulators and politicians are waving red flags over the proposed "Basel II" accord ...

The Basel II rules and, in particular, the way the United States proposes to implement them will have serious, unintended competitiveness and risk management consequences. This is not to say that ...

In recent weeks the new Basel capital accord has come under fierce attack from opponents who charge that the accord will have serious, unintended consequences. For instance, former FDIC chairman ...

The Basel II accord has done more harm than good for stability. In a previous post last month on the failure of financial regulation, I pointed out that Basel II has glaring deficiencies that ...

The set of risk management regulations that are currently gaining steam globally, the Basel II standards, are increasingly falling under critical eyes as the system gains worldwide support. The ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. As the deadline for Basel II compliance nears, IBMs ...

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new report by Fitch demystifies the Basel II treatment of asset correlation and provides original empirical analysis of the correlation values assumed under the ...

According to a recent survey by the Financial Stability Institute and Bank of International Settlements, banking institutions in the Middle East region recognise the importance of Basel II and have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rafael Repullo and Javier Suarez (CEPR paper here) think that Basel II will not help deal with credit-crunchery: We analyze the cyclical effects of moving from risk-insensitive (Basel I) to ...