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Capital standards for banks: the evolving Basel Accord

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The Basel Capital Accord has served as the framework for capital adequacy standards for internationally active banks since 1988. The agreement is widely viewed as having achieved its main objectives, including the promotion of stability in world financial markets. In recent years, however, it has become less appropriate for the world's largest banks, which are increasingly complex and engage in financial transactions unimagined when the agreement was adopted. Now proposals are being considered to refine the framework to take account of the changes in banking and the banking system over the past fifteen years.

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  • anonymous, 2003. "Capital standards for banks: the evolving Basel Accord," Federal Reserve Bulletin, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), issue Sep, pages 395-405.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedgrb:y:2003:i:sep:p:395-405:n:v.89no.9
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    1. Gustavo A. Del Angel & Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio, 2008. "Bank Accounting Standards in Mexico. A layman’s guide to changes 10 years after the 1995 bank crisis," Harvard Business School Working Papers 08-090, Harvard Business School.
    2. Chateau, J.-P. & Wu, J., 2007. "Basel-2 capital adequacy: Computing the `fair' capital charge for loan commitment `true' credit risk," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 1-21.
    3. Chateau, John-Peter D., 2007. "Beyond Basel-2 simplified standardized approach: Credit risk valuation of short-term loan commitments," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 16(5), pages 412-433.

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    Bank capital; Risk management;

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