WASHINGTON - In the early stages of the ongoing revision of international capital rules, regulators on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision insisted that whatever changes were made would not ...

The push for standardization under Basel III continues, bringing significant changes to how banks calculate capital requirements for operational risk. Against this backdrop, the European Banking ...

Over the years since the first proposed revision of the Basel Accord on Capital Adequacy (Basel II), the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee has criticized the Basel Committee’s proposals ...

Financial institutions are in the business of risk management and reallocation, and they have developed sophisticated risk management systems to carry out these tasks. The basic components of a risk ...

The operational risk component of the agencies' capital proposal could not possibly pass any cost-benefit analysis, write Grag Baer and Francisco Covas, of Bank Policy Institute. If the capital rule ...

Public debt managers are exposed to a wide range of potential risks that could be categorized in two main areas: financial risks and operational risks. Financial risks, such as interest rate risk and ...

The severe disruptive effects of Covid-19 on banks’ activities, have made identifying, measuring, controlling, and monitoring operational risk at banks more important than ever. Operational risk is ...