Capital matters to most corporations in free markets, but there are differences. Companies in non-financial industries need equity capital mainly to support funding to buy property and to build or ...

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 Basel II Capital Accord is the latest in a long line of regulatory requirements to emerge in international financial services. While many companies view Basel II as a costly and often confusing ...

Now in its second edition, this bestselling handbook has been fully updated and expanded in light of important changes to the new Basel II Accord such as: the asset classes required under Pillar 1, ...

How did we get here? Between December 2017 to 2019, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("Basel Committee"), through a series of amendments, finalised the third instalment of the Basel Accords ...

Many major financial institutions are working to meet New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) guidelines, tentatively, by 2007. Given the effort's complexity, urgency, and ongoing nature, it creates a ...

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.

Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis, This paper provides an empirical investigation on the relationship between Basel II capital requirement and the risk-taking behaviour of banks in Brazil.

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 ...