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 ...

Basel III aims to stabilize global banking, reduce risk, and impact financial markets, ensuring a more resilient economic ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published a consultative document on updating the principles for the management of credit risk. The principles, first issued in October ...

Global banking regulators have issued a new discussion paper that aims to spark debate over whether to try and simplify the new Basel III capital adequacy regime. The Basel Committee on Banking ...

The committee is unveiling the standards later in July, culminating a yearslong process. The Basel Committee met on July 2-3 and made policy decisions on issues that included disclosure of banks’ ...

Controversies over too-big-to-fail financial institutions continue to mount. The Basel Accords represent the latest effort to ease risk and restore confidence, as this Backgrounder explains. The ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has released a consultative document proposing Principles for the sound management of third-party risk in the banking sector. Ongoing digitalization has led ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) Standardised Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) was introduced to improve the risk sensitivity of capital framework for derivatives ...

The capital standards adopted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision have wrongly taken precedence over the authority invested in Congress to legislate and determine the appropriate capital ...

The Basel Committee recently released its assessment reports that are focused on the implementation of its global standards in the United Kingdom. According to an update shared by BIS, assessments ...