Incorporating Basel II Requirements Into an IT Corporate Governance Framework: Part 2 - The Services Dimension Many major financial institutions are working to meet New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how the Advanced Internal Rating-Based (AIRB) approach helps financial institutions internally assess credit risk using key metrics like LGD, EAD, and PD.

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 ...

For decades Congress has required U.S. regulators to establish minimum capital requirements to ensure that the nation's banking institutions operate in a safe and sound manner. Though the current ...

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 ...

In November 2025, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a risk-based capital adequacy requirements directive for banks. Directive No. SBB/95/2025 has given recognition for Basel II and Basel III ...

FinArch's Basel II solution, with integrated reporting functionality, computes the Basel II capital requirements, applies the appropriate national discretion parameters and submits the reports to the ...

Basel II has been on the horizon for years, but with the first phase of implementation approaching at the end of the year, and some banks already putting the guidelines into place, Melanie Lovatt ...

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 ...