Implementing robust capital standards that give individual institutions sufficient buffers from extreme events and protect the system at-large has been a major challenge for regulators and the Basel ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's largest banks will have less discretion over how much capital to hold against loans turning sour, global regulators proposed on Thursday. Regulators want to cut ...

Basel III, with its requirement that banks risk-weight their assets to calculate their capital levels, will bring about sweeping changes in the way banks assess the credits on their books. Banks may ...

One of the primary focus points of Basel III rules on minimum capital requirements issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2010) has been counterparty credit risk (CCR).1 Among other ...

TOKYO—The head of Japan’s most prominent banking association says global regulators’ proposal for a tougher, uniform method of assessing risk could limit banks’ lending capacity, hindering the efforts ...

Global banks face limits on how far they can reduce their capital requirements using internal models as regulators assert control over how lenders measure risk. The Basel Committee on Banking ...