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But even if Basel III had not been too little, it may have been too late.

Most of these concerns would not be addressed even if China were to introduce Basel III.

John Gerspach, Citi's chief financial officer, said the company argued that Basel's higher risk weightings constituted such a change.

The Basel club is now making a stab at this task as well as trying to co-ordinate resolution schemes globally.

The Basel rules will force it to hold much more equity than it had going into the crisis.

"Originate to distribute has merits, " says Malcolm Knight, head of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.

American regulators had broadly accepted Basel 2 back in 2004, when they signed up to its framework.

"Our Basel stadium was the first actual example of that change in perception, " says Herzog.

Some banks that might not be able to meet these prerequisites at their Basel II deadline need to take a less sophisticated approach.

It usually meets at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, where its permanent secretariat is located.

However, some regulators believe that the Basel framework, which took nine years to put in place, can be salvaged.

Bankers circumvented the last lot of Basel rules, and regulators will have to watch out for attempts to do the same this time around.

European and American works that would create a buzz at fairs in London or Basel remained on the stands .

In both "Basel Capital Accord" and "New Basel Capital Accord, " the bank's capital adequacy regulation is provided.

Banks on the list will have to cooperate with regulations imposed by the agency as well as the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision.

Mr. Rudolf, 50, said he was first approached by the Singapore government 15 years ago, when he was still director of Art Basel.

Key parts of the Basel III regulations do not come in to force until 2013, Clark said, giving banks some time to plug the gap.

The authorities did make a more fundamental attempt to regulate the banks with the Basel accord.

The rules must be global, ideally in the form of a new Basel regime, to prevent activity migrating to laxer countries.

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Basel II regulatory capital calculations require a great deal of data and far-reaching operating and market disclosures.

By the Basel Banking committee's estimation, loss caused by operational risk is only less than loss caused by credit risk.

The Basel Committee's report shows that the benefits of the consequent decline in the probability of a costly crisis are substantial.

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Position the bank to take advantage of capital relief available under the Basel II rules.

Part of this conservatism reflects the continuing uncertainty over the ongoing overhaul of the banks' capital regime, dubbed Basel 3.

Only one of Britain's big banks, HBOS, made losses that would have overwhelmed the new Basel capital standards.

Now that the draft "Basel 3" rules on banks' funding have also just been watered down, these firms may be able to carry on much as before.

Instead, he left Art Basel in 2000 and went on to set up fairs like Art Palm Beach in Florida and ShContemporary in Shanghai.

Indian bankers said that Basel III would have little impact on the domestic banking sector as it was already well capitalised.

In 2002, he was the President of the Organization Committee of the Judo World Championships in Basel.

Only one of Britain's big banks, HBOS, made losses that would have overwhelmed the new Basel standards.

And rules to increase the money banks must hold for liquidity are coming from the Basel Committee, a club of rich-country bank supervisors.

Most analysts said they were unlikely to come into play until the rest of the Basel agreement takes full effect in 2019.

None of the regulators defended Basel III, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported.

So some of the Basel committee's hyperbole about a "substantial" contribution to financial stability is justified.

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When this activity was revealed, international outrage led to the drafting and adoption of the Basel Convention.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said on Tuesday that it will make systemic risk one of its main priorities in the coming months.

New global regulations on capital, known as Basel 3, will force banks to set aside much more money to make their investment arms safer.

The Parties to the Basel Convention consider that illegal traffic in hazardous wastes or other wastes is criminal.

As the member of the Basel Agreement, the Capital Adequate Rates of our state-owned banks are seriously low.

Addressing shareholders in Basel, Marcel Rohner, chief executive, said further job cuts would be detailed next month.

If you're staying in a Basel hotel, however, public transport is free - just ask for a Mobility ticket when you check in.

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To allow more time to deal with these concerns, America plans to implement Basel 2 only from 2008, and with a three-year transition period.

The new Basel 2 banking regulations will force banks to recognise liabilities that until now they have been able to hide.

The Basel III agreement was broadly well received across Asia, as it emerged that the new rules were not as onerous as some had feared.

But analysts, and even some bankers, are saying that the agreement known as Basel III, won't prevent more financial calamity.

This was subsequently modified in Basel II, to give banks some theoretical discretion to raise reserves against sovereign risk.

The Basel accord was designed to deal with a different problem: that big borrowers might default.

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The committee's package of recommendations, known as Basel III, will increase the minimum common equity that banks will hold to 7%.

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In Basel III, minimum capital ratios are set at a level that will represent a significant increase in firms' requirements.

"Basel II is evolving" , and was not a contributory factor to the crisis, he says.

Investment banks will be held to at least the new Basel requirements.

On September 12th the Basel Committee of international bank regulators agreed on a new set of requirements for banks' liquidity and capital.

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European banks do not have this kind of "leverage ratio, " and Basel II has allowed them to treat sovereign debt as having zero risk.

growing competition among international banks, intense, "New Basel Capital Accord" on the banking industry more stringent regulatory risk.

The reform package, known as Basel III, includes a new minimum core tier one ratio for banks worldwide.

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New Basel Accord encourages the commercial hank to evaluate the important credit risk factor under the law of internal ratings.

In 1998, the Basel Committee decided to revise the Accord in a most significant way.

The figures will also be carefully studied when leading central bankers meet in Basel this weekend.

In this environment, the New Basel Capital Accord to China's banking sector, a more innovative risk management perspective.

The new Basel 3 rules will penalise banks with too much wholesale or cross-border borrowing, and with good reason.

According to the 1988 Basel agreement, the bank's core capital and total capital ratio should be achieved respectively 4% and 8%.

The Basel Convention contains specific provisions for the monitoring of implementation and compliance.

You could see [the crisis] in countries where there was a leverage ratio and no Basel II [such as the US].

Why are the transitional arrangements set forth in the Guiding Opinions different from those prescribed in Basel III?

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Later this year the Basel club will publish its own assessment, which should be less alarming.

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Roche is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and its biotech unit Genentech is based in California.

That the warning comes not from Hollywood but from Basel makes it all the more worthy of attention.

Warwick Bedwell is the vice president, global head of business development, pharma partnering, for Basel, Switzerland-based Roche.

A draft proposal of new global standards for banking capitalization known as Basel 3 is the first serious stab at this task.

In 2006, a quake shook Basel, Switzerland (map), amid drilling and underground rock-cracking for an enhanced geothermal system there.

Meanwhile, the new Basel Accord on the commercial bank's risk measurement issues for an explanation.

They placed three Swiss cities -- Geneva, Basel and Bern -- and three German cities -- Dusseldorf, Bonn and Munich -- in their top ten.

But the gradual implementation of the Basel rules will give banks more flexibility if the economic outlook sours again.

The Basel III accord, unveiled last autumn by banking regulators, was a big step forward in requiring banks to hold more equity.

Last month the Basel committee, a group of bank supervisors, unveiled a new strategy that will evaluate the case for leverage ratios.

Regulators and banking supervisors in the Basel system will issue sound practice guidance and monitor banks' performance against it.

This was achieved by assigning very low risk weightings to a bank's assets under the Basel II treatment.

The economy is booming, but Americans cannot get mortgages because some pen-pusher in Basel says the banks are taking too much risk.

The capital adequacy rules were part of the Basel I rules that regulators in many countries adopted.

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The Basel II arrangements mean that banks need to set more capital aside just to maintain their existing lending levels.

China has, along with postponing the implementation of the Basel rules, taken other steps to shore up its banks over the past few months.

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Commentators see the July changes to the Basel proposals, commonly known as Basel III, as a big victory for lenders.

Negotiations in Basel have slowed as Europeans fret that stiffening standards may slow lending and hinder economic recovery.

Reached a new Basel II risk management level, the Gansu Provincial Communications branch of risk management capacity is a severe test.

The Basel banking principles attached varying capital requirements to different types of assets.

The implementation of Basel III capital adequacy and liquidity standards should be delayed.

However many officials still shrink from going significantly beyond the Basel III guidelines.

Basel is now at work on how to implement a capital surcharge for the largest, most interconnected financial firms.

Nonetheless, StanChart will become only the second big bank to respond directly to the Basel III rules, revealed last month.

But an even application of the Basel III agenda is far from assured.

"Basel will change the quality of the art fair, " says Xin Li, Asia business development director at Christie's.

Its development from scratch, from theory to realization is indispensable to the joint effort of Basel Agreement and EU.

Banking operation risks were divided into the credit risk, the market risk and the operational risk in the new Basel Capital Accord.

Weaknesses in the previous Basel II rules have been blamed for the financial crisis.

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Under Basel I, the less risky the rating of an asset, the lower the capital requirements.

Not only is Basel raising the ratios, but just as importantly, it is also raising the quality of capital that underlie them.

The New Basel Capital Committee commends that the management of operational risk has been the core factor of whole risk management.

The Basel club of bank supervisors is considering new liquidity rules, as are many national regulators.

Much progress has been made through the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to raise global capital standards.

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I wrote this before the conclusion of Sunday's agreement in Basel, which irrespective of the details will take years to implement.

NEWSWEEK and Credit Suisse co-hosted a preview dinner for the project at the Art Basel art fair this year.

The world's companies are still converting to International Financial Reporting Standards and Basel II banking regulations.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is supposedly days away from deciding new rules.

loan classifications coherent with Basel regulatory schemes.

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Banks must have a Core Tier 1 ratio of at least 7 percent under new Basel III capital rules agreed by regulators last month.

The Basel club has not articulated a vision of how big the buffers should be.

The original Basel rules on capital adequacy sought to limit such "hybrid" capital that sits between equity and debt.

This lack of progress compounds the fault-lines over the proposed "Basel 3" rules on capital and liquidity.

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The Basel Committee should study the need for and help develop firms' new stress testing models, as appropriate.

The Basel committee is, rightly, now looking at rules for banks' liquidity.

The FDIC agreed to ditch a proposal that would have forced regulators to modify Basel 2 if total bank-capital levels dropped by 10% or more.

Meanwhile, new rules in the works from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision may require banks to boost reserves.

The Basel regime for capital adequacy does nothing to constrain credit booms.

Nations on the Basel committee will now seek to pass the new rules into law so their banking supervisors can enforce them.

Thicker buffers could be built into the Basel II framework for bank capital.

In the past, the BIS has invited the top chief of private-sector banks to such gatherings in Basel on a yearly basis.

The Basel committee of banking regulators has launched new proposals on both capital and liquidity.

On financial reform, the new Basel accords, which governments may ratify in Seoul, are meagre progress.

Basel II will be the first operational risk measurement and capital into the banks under its jurisdiction.

By contrast, banks are at an earlier stage of getting to grips with the liquidity requirements of Basel III.

The worry isn't really over how high the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision will set capital requirements.

Both Art Basel fairs are owned by MCH Messe Schweiz, the Swiss convention centre and event management group.

No need to panic yet, but a leverage ratio is being considered as part of the Basel 3 rules.

The new Basel rules, as they are called, would still be stiffer than existing standards.

Under Basel 2 rules banks would then have to set aside more capital relative to their assets.

Facing the challenge and questions, the Basel Committee made positive response.

A third concern among America's thousands of small banks has been that Basel 2 would give big banks an unfair advantage.

Basel III allows the equity of banks to be as low as 3 per cent of their total, non-risk-weighted assets, which is dangerously low.

Basel I developed this by taking account o the risks associated with different types o credit exposure.

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These figures do not reflect the incoming, tougher, "Basel 3" rules, which will make things look worse.

One area where Basel regulators may have fallen short was fixing the way banks count what's in their coffers.

The US joined other nations in pledging to implement the Basel II capital accord by 2011 and called for convergence in accounting standards.

Banking shares rallied across Europe following the Basel agreement.

So too may the introduction of Basel 3 rules that will require banks to hold more high-quality capital.

The advent of Basel III could add significantly to the value of their RWAs, requiring either deleveraging or an increased capital base.

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That alarmed their regulators since Basel 2 was meant to reduce some banks' capital cushions only marginally and increase others.

But I think the other two much more public stories are simply sideshows to the action in the main ring that is Basel III.

It is suitable for China to carry out the Basel II as soon as possible. Asset Securitization is a good cut-in.

The Basel group also announced that the new rules should be gradually implemented from 2013 to the end of 2018.

Chinese lenders have not yet implemented Basel II standards and the first one is not expected to do so until next year at the earliest.

Most countries in the world have adopted the provisions of the Basel Committee's 8% capital adequacy ratio requirements.

The new rules, Basel 2, may be more sophisticated in their treatment of risk but they rely heavily on models developed by banks themselves.

The intent of Basel regulation was to ensure worldwide capital adequacy, while driving the development of sound risk practices.

The Basel Committee published its first "Basel Capital Accord" , now known as Basel 1, in 1988.

The Basel club of regulators is working to raise the level and improve the quality of banks' capital.

Some argue that both the US Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III capital requirements have now ended US bail-outs.

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Internal Ratings-Based (IRB) approach is the core of the New Basel Accord.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released the Basel Capital Accord in 1988, whose core is capital regulatory.

Finally, Basel's effect on the economy, and in particular on aggregate demand, could be severe.

Under the original 1988 Basel 1 rules governing bank capital, the bulk of banks' tier-one capital had to be common equity.

New Basel Capital Accord has been implemented in internationally active banks by the end of 2006, .

It wants banks to meet minimum Basel III rules by 2013, well ahead of the international pack.

Ensure quality data are used for the development of the Basel 2 models and in the production Basel systems and credit risk systems.

The practice was left nearly untouched by the Basel III agreement.

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First, will the new medication prescribed by bodies such as the Basel committee on banking supervision work on the root cause of the crisis?

All other banks will be regulated by Basel 1A, which contains a few elements of Basel 2, but retains the leverage ratio.

Rather than try to outdo the aspects of Basel that are already sound, G20 leaders have an opportunity to fix what is still broken.

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China has announced its intention to adopt the committee's Basel II regulatory framework on banking capital by 2008.

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The Basel III compromise limits the use of insurance capital to 10 per cent of each bank's total capital stock.

Instead of being a catalyst for urgent change, the Basel committee is allowing weaker banks to muddle along.

The study by researchers at University Hospital Basel is not the first to note this problem.

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Into this void has stepped the Basel club of bank regulators, which released detailed new analysis on August 18th.

Banks facing tighter Basel 3 capital requirements will have even less money to lend, potentially causing a dangerous contraction.

Banks elsewhere in Europe made efforts to bolster their capital bases before the Basel 3 rules begin to bite.

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The Basel Committee is issuing this paper for consultation.

The biggest impact will come from the Basel 3 capital requirements, which could be finalised at next month's G20 summit in Seoul.

The Basel committee's members are representatives of central banks from many of the world's largest economies.

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Basel 2 invites banks to choose between two approaches when calculating credit risk and capital allocation.

We have seen that models are more imperfect than we thought. [What we are embarking on is] just an improvement of Basel II.

European banks, for example, began to implement Basel 2 last January, and regulators have imposed fewer restrictions on capital decreases.

The new Basel III capital adequacy rules are supposed to take care of the problem of dodgy categories of core capital.

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Under Basel III, which regulators developed in response to the crisis, JPMorgan estimates the same ratio was only 7. 7%.

Even the 26 banks readying for Basel 2 will be forced to cling to the leverage ratio as a safety measure.

In spite of a painfully slow implementation, Basel will have a profound impact on trading businesses.

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Basel II was published in June 2004 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Basel 2 takes a different approach to capital, charging banks on the basis of how risky their assets are.

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It prohibits them from counting any hybrids issued after the Basel III standards were announced in 2010.

Whereas Basel 3 requires banks to carry core capital of 7% of risk-adjusted assets, the Swiss banks will need 10%.

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The Basel 3 or Basel III accords were established in September 2010 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

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Last week, G20 leaders endorsed tougher Basel III capital and liquidity rules for banks.

Basel I recommended that a bank's total capital should be a minimum o 8% o risk adjusted assets.

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Banks were able to exploit the first lot of so-called Basel rules, because they could hide risky loans off their balance sheets.

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The existing Basel 2 rules proved to be too lenient.

Basel III is a key element in the global regulatory framework.

The G20 will not provide specifics for any leverage or liquidity ratios, which are being discussed in forums such as the Basel committee.

JPMorgan Chase added 1. 1% after chief Jamie Dimon was quoted calling the Basel III capital rules "anti-American. "

Located on the river Rhine - where Switzerland, France and Germany meet - Basel is easy to reach.

Basel also makes matters worse for consumers.

The Basel agreements on bank regulation have succeeded to some extent in achieving this, but they take too long to negotiate.

At the same time it introduces the credit risk measurement's relevant provisions of "The New Basel Accord" .

In contrast the proposed Basel III rule from global banking regulators would require a top 7. 5% capital ratio.

The Basel rules allowed core-capital ratios to go as low as 2%.

China acceded to the Basel Convention as a Party in 1989.

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Negotiating Basel II took roughly a decade.

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Revenue totaled $2. 2 billion, compared with $2 billion in the year-earlier period, the Basel-based company said.

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The European Union has passed legislation to implement Basel 2 next year.

A select number of American banks will implement Basel 2 in 2009.

When the new Basel Accord is proposed in 2006, Chinese commercial banks are asked to raise the minimum capital ratio to 12%.

No, what keeps bankers from Tokyo to New York up at night is worry over how Basel III will define Tier 1 capital.

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"There were people who felt the Basel plan was high-risk, " she says.

How Do Chinese Banks Develop According to the New Basel Capital Accord?

That also means it will be hit relatively lightly by the new Basel 3 capital rules.

Moreover, many of the details on Basel 3 still need to be ironed out.