Basel II

Bank for International Settlements Basel Accord - Basel I Basel II

Background

Banking Monetary policy - Central bank Risk - Risk management Regulatory capital Tier 1 - Tier 2

Pillar 1: Regulatory Capital

Credit risk Standardized - F-IRB - A-IRB PD - LGD - EAD Operational risk Basic - Standardized - AMA Market risk Duration - Value at risk

Pillar 2: Supervisory Review

Economic capital Liquidity risk - Legal risk

Pillar 3: Market Disclosure

Disclosure

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The Basel Accord(s) or Basle Accord(s) (see spelling section below) refers to the banking supervision Accords (recommendations on banking laws and regulations), Basel I and Basel II issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). They are called the Basel Accords as the BCBS maintains its secretariat at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland and the committee normally meets there.

Contents 1 The Basel Committee 2 Spelling 3 See also 4 References

[edit] The Basel Committee

The Basel Committee consists of representatives from central banks and regulatory authorities of the Group of Ten countries, plus others (specifically Luxembourg and Spain). The committee does not have the authority to enforce recommendations, although most member countries (and others) tend to implement the Committee's policies. This means that recommendations are enforced through national (or EU-wide) laws and regulations, rather than as a result of the committee's recommendations - thus some time may pass between recommendations and implementation as law at the national level.

[edit] Spelling

The Basel Committee is named after the city of Basel, Switzerland. In early publications, the Committee sometimes used the British spelling "Basle" or the French-language spelling "Bâle," names that are sometimes still used in the media. More recently, the Committee has deferred to the predominantly German-speaking population of the region and used the spelling "Basel."

[edit] See also

• Tier 1 capital
• Tier 2 capital
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act

[edit] References

• http://www.bis.org: The site of the Bank for International Settlements.
• http://bis2information.org: Practical articles, on BIS2 and risk modelling, submitted by professionals to help create an industry standard.
• A Nontechnical Analysis of Basel I and II