Download or read book Basel III and Its New Capital Requirements as Distinguished from Basel II written by Emily Lee and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From July 1988 when the original Basel Accord, Basel I, was introduced until January 2013 when Basel III implementation began, over the past 25 years, capital adequacy requirements have emerged as the dominant form of regulation for maintaining the financial soundness of banks. The rationale for reserving regulatory capital is to allow a bank, when under financial stress, to draw upon a pool of reserved funds comprised of shareholders' equity and its retained earnings, providing a buffer against a bank's unexpected losses. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“Basel Committee”) issued a consultative document in December 2009 titled “Strengthening the Resilience of the Banking Sector,” often referred to by practitioners as “Basel III.” Though a consultative document, the Basel Committee saw it as a set of proposed changes to the Basel II framework that was first issued in 2004. A comprehensive reform package, Basel III draws lessons from the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, one of them being the banking sectors in many countries had built up excessive on- and off-balance sheet leverage that was accompanied by a gradual erosion of the quantity and quality of the capital base. Basel III strengthens and redefines the global capital framework by raising banks' capital adequacy ratios and requiring banks to build up its capital defenses in periods when credit is at excessive levels, upholding a financially sound banking system that is the backbone of a functional market economy; because a market economy needs a financially sound banking system for raising capital and extending credit. Despite its relatively long five year phase-in period, Basel III is stricter than Basel II; and, Basel III, like its predecessors, does not have enforcement mechanisms due to its soft-law nature. Focusing especially on Basel III's capital adequacy requirement, this article aims to examine Basel III's implementation and measures for reducing systemic risk, its improvement from Basel II as well as its impact on trade finance, project finance and small- and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”).

Download or read book International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Status of the Basel III Capital Adequacy Accord written by Walter W. Eubanks and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Basel Capital Adequacy Accord (Basel III) is an agreement among countries' central banks and bank supervisory authorities on the amount of capital banks must hold as a cushion against losses and insolvency. Basel III is of concern to Congress mainly because it could put U.S. financial institutions at a competitive disadvantage in world financial markets. This report follows the basic elements of the Basel III documents on the types of capital requirements and their phase-in schedule, which were approved by the Basel member central bank governors on September 12, 2010. The elements are the new definition of Tier 1 capital, the minimum common equity capital, the capital conservation buffer, countercyclical capital buffer, liquidity coverage ratio, global leverage ratio, and wind-down government capital injections. The report concludes with some implications drawn from its content.

Download or read book Basel 3 capital requirements overview and critical evaluation written by Oliver Baumgartner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,3, University of Innsbruck, course: Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, language: English, abstract: In dieser Seminararbeit finden Sie eine Zusammenfassung aller wichtiger Aspekte hinter Basel 3. Dabei liegt der Fokus einzig und allein auf den unterschiedlichen Kapitalanforderungen, wie Tier 1 und 2 capital. Die Entwicklung von Basel I bis hin zu Basel III ist eindeutig nachvollziehbar. Ein weiteres Highlight, ist eine kritische Evaluation der Vor- bzw. Nachtteile unter Basel 3. Nachdem Sie diese Arbeit gelesen haben, werden Sie ein breitgefächertes Verständnis über den Aufbau von der neuen Kapitalanforderungen erhalten. Sie werden in der Lage sein, selbstständig über Vor- und Nachteile evaluieren zu können und die Auswirkungen in der Volkswirtschaft erkennen. This paper deals with the main problems that will come up with the implementation of the new Basel III accord. It provides an overview of the capital requirement changes from Basel I until Basel III. Additionally, it provides a lot of information about the new structure. Although, the new capital requirements should enhance financial stability, they still have lot of shortcomings. Therefore, this paper highlights the biggest problems that will arise.

Download or read book The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision written by Charles Goodhart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) sets the guidelines for world-wide regulation of banks. It is the forum for agreeing international regulation on the conduct of banking. Based on special access to the archives of the BCBS and interviews with many of its key players, this book tells the story of the early years of the Committee from its foundation in 1974/5 right through until 1997 - the year that marks the watershed between the Basel I Accord on Capital Adequacy and the start of work on Basel II. In addition, the book covers the Concordat, the Market Risk Amendment, the Core Principles of Banking and all other facets of the work of the BCBS. While the book is primarily a record of the history of the BCBS, it also provides an assessment of its actions and efficacy. It is a major contribution to the historical record on banking supervision.

Download or read book Banks Adjustment to Basel III Reform written by Michal Andrle and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper seeks to identify strategies of commercial banks in response to higher capital requirements of Basel III reform and its phase-in. It focuses on a sample of nine EU emerging market countries and picks up 5 largest banks in each country assessing their response. The paper finds that all banking sectors raised CAR ratios mainly through retained earnings. In countries where the banking sector struggled with profitability, banks have resorted to issuance of new equity or shrunk the size of their balance sheets to meet the higher capital-adequacy requirements. Worries echoed at the early stage of Basel III compilation, namely that commercial banks would shrink their balance sheet by reducing their lending to meet stricter capital requirements, did materialize only in banks struggling with profitability.

Download or read book The role of capital requirements in ensuring capital adequacy written by Arno Hetzel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich BWL - Investition und Finanzierung, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Veranstaltung: Bank Financial Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In this paper, the impact of higher capital requirements to the capital adequacy of banks as well as its consequences to the financial system will be discussed. Therefore, these terms will be explained and an overview of the developed guidelines will be given. With the help of that knowledge, the actual challenges for financial institutions can be set in relation to these rules in order to find an appropriate level of banking regulation. This topic has a special meaning to society, because the banking sector is highly leveraged and can cause great economic damage if there is a lack of sufficient risk management.

Download or read book Connectedness and Contagion written by Hal S. Scott and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that contagion is the most significant risk facing the financial system and that Dodd¬Frank has reduced the government's ability to respond effectively. The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd–Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was the major problem in that crisis—that is, that financial institutions were overexposed to one another, resulting in a possible chain reaction of failures. In this book, Hal Scott argues that it is not connectedness but contagion that is the most significant element of systemic risk facing the financial system. Contagion is an indiscriminate run by short-term creditors of financial institutions that can render otherwise solvent institutions insolvent. It poses a serious risk because, as Scott explains, our financial system still depends on approximately $7.4 to $8.2 trillion of runnable and uninsured short-term liabilities, 60 percent of which are held by nonbanks. Scott argues that efforts by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Treasury to stop the contagion that exploded after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers lessened the economic damage. And yet Congress, spurred by the public's aversion to bailouts, has dramatically weakened the power of the government to respond to contagion, including limitations on the Fed's powers as a lender of last resort. Offering uniquely detailed forensic analyses of the Lehman Brothers and AIG failures, and suggesting alternative regulatory approaches, Scott makes the case that we need to restore and strengthen our weapons for fighting contagion.

Download or read book Basel III Implications for banks capital structure What happens with hybrid capital instruments written by Timo Köffer and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to answer the question of how CoCos differ from convertible bonds, and how these instruments are suitable for contributing as core capital under Basel III. The place ability of CoCos and the challenges resulting from their use are discussed in this book. Overall a comprehensive picture of the impacts resulting from the new capital definitions will be created. The Background to the introduction of Basel III is described at the beginning of the book, in addition to a presentation of the Basel III document and the new capital definitions. To create a kind of basic understanding of the functioning of convertible bonds and CoCos, hybrid capital will then be explained. In the following part of the book the design options of CoCos and different interests of investor groups are shown. Then the Commerzbank AG is analyzed by means of an analysis of how the capital components changed in Basel II through to Basel III over the last two years. The effect of Basel III on hybrid capital will be illustrated with a practical example. At the end of the book follows a short conclusion regarding the potential impact of Basel III on hybrid capital and the new capital instrument CoCos.

Download or read book Risk Based Capital written by Orice M. Williams and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basel II, the new risk-based capital framework based on an international accord, is being adopted by individual countries. It includes standardized and advanced approaches to estimating capital requirements. In the U.S., bank regulators have finalized an advanced approach rule that will be required for some of the largest, most internationally active banks and proposed an optional standardized approach rule for non-core banks that will also have the option to remain on existing capital rules. This report examines: (1) the markets in which banks compete; (2) how new capital rules address U.S. banks' competitive concerns; and (3) actions regulators are taking to address competitive and other potential negative effects during implementation. Illus.

Download or read book Banking On Basel written by Daniel Tarullo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turmoil in financial markets that resulted from the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States indicates the need to dramatically transform regulation and supervision of financial institutions. Would these institutions have been sounder if the 2004 Revised Framework on International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards (Basel II accord)—negotiated between 1999 and 2004—had already been fully implemented? Basel II represents a dramatic change in capital regulation of large banks in the countries represented on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: Its internal ratings–based approaches to capital regulation will allow large banks to use their own credit risk models to set minimum capital requirements. The Basel Committee itself implicitly acknowledged in spring 2008 that the revised framework would not have been adequate to contain the risks exposed by the subprime crisis and needed strengthening. This crisis has highlighted two more basic questions about Basel II: One, is the method of capital regulation incorporated in the revised framework fundamentally misguided? Two, even if the basic Basel II approach has promise as a paradigm for domestic regulation, is the effort at extensive international harmonization of capital rules and supervisory practice useful and appropriate? This book provides the answers. It evaluates Basel II as a bank regulatory paradigm and as an international arrangement, considers some possible alternatives, and recommends significant changes in the arrangement.

Download or read book Operational Risk written by Anna S. Chernobai and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While operational risk has long been regarded as a mere part of "other" risks--outside the realm of credit and market risk--it has quickly made its way to the forefront of finance. In fact, with implementation of the Basel II Capital Accord already underway, many financial professionals--as well as those preparing to enter this field--must now become familiar with a variety of issues related to operational risk modeling and management. Written by the experienced team of Anna Chernobai, Svetlozar Rachev, and Frank Fabozzi, Operational Risk will introduce you to the key concepts associated with this discipline. Filled with in-depth insights, expert advice, and innovative research, this comprehensive guide not only presents you with an abundant amount of information regarding operational risk, but it also walks you through a wide array of examples that will solidify your understanding of the issues discussed. Topics covered include: The main challenges that exist in modeling operational risk. The variety of approaches used to model operational losses. Value-at-Risk and its role in quantifying and managing operational risk. The three pillars of the Basel II Capital Accord. And much more.

Download or read book Basel 3 and its impact on liquidity measures written by Daniel Hosp and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Banken und Finanzen), language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction On 6 September 2009 the Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision agreed on Basel III after the financial crisis proved that Basel II was not capable of preventing the global economy from such a crisis (BCBS, 2008). Basel III is the third version of the international regulatory framework for financial institutions published by the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) located in Basel, Switzerland (BIS, www.bis.org, 30.04.2011).... .... This bachelor thesis should provide some deeper information about the impacts of the new liquidity measures. The impact of the standards on economy, financial institutions and their business segments is presented, after a detailed explanation of them. Concluding a comprehensive evaluation of the new requirements is done. 2. Developments in Basel III 2.1. Increasing Capital Requirements 2.2. Liquidity Coverage Ratio 2.3. Net Stable Funding Ratio 2.4. Monitoring Tools and Application of Standards 3. Initial Situation of Banks Regarding Liquidity Requirements 3.1. Quantitative Impact Study of the BCBS 3.2. European Quantitative Impact Study of the CEBS 3.3. Comparison of Results 4. Economic Impacts of the New Liquidity Requirements 4.1. Benefits of the New Liquidity Requirements 4.2. Costs of the New Liquidity Requirements 4.3. Evaluation of the Results 5. Impact of the Liquidity Requirements on Banks and their Business Segments 5.1. Changed Market Conditions 5.2. Impact on the Profitability of Banks 5.3. Impact on Business Segments 5.4. Impact on Central Banks 5.5. Overall Impacts on Banks and Business Segments 6. Evaluating the Liquidity Rules of Basel III 6.1. Static Nature of the Liquidity Measures 6.2. Are Wrong Incentives the Actual Causer? 6.3. Introduction of Basel III in Various Countries 6.4. Additional Comments 7. Conclusion

Download or read book U S Implementation of the Basel Capital Regulatory Framework written by Darryl E. Getter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the higher capital requirements for U.S. banks regulated for safety and soundness.

Download or read book Revisiting Risk Weighted Assets written by Vanessa Le Leslé and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we provide an overview of the concerns surrounding the variations in the calculation of risk-weighted assets (RWAs) across banks and jurisdictions and how this might undermine the Basel III capital adequacy framework. We discuss the key drivers behind the differences in these calculations, drawing upon a sample of systemically important banks from Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. We then discuss a range of policy options that could be explored to fix the actual and perceived problems with RWAs, and improve the use of risk-sensitive capital ratios.

Download or read book Implications from regulatory changes on the Swiss banking sector written by Stefan Stotz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 5, Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales, course: MBA International Finance, language: English, abstract: Basel III has already had a major impact on the global finance sector. In this report I have analyzed the impact on the swiss banks, in particular the system relevant banks. In response to the latest global financial crisis, a number of regulatory policies such as Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and stringent compliance were adopted over the past years but the finance sector called for an international standard, a global regulation. The planned implementation of Basel Accords by January 1, 2019 focuses on much higher capital requirements as well as increased liquidity and funding requirements at the same time. The core goal of Basel III is to make sure that government will never have to bail out banks again as they did in many cases over the past years. This objective of this thesis is to analyze and describe the Basel III framework and focus on its implications on the banking industry, with a focus on the Swiss Banking Sector. The main challenges ahead for the banking sector due to the extensive regulatory changes are to review the profitability of their business models as intensification of compliance will bring pressure on bank’s profit margins. The report will describe how financial institutions will also have to review funding strategies and also deal with the impact of increased capital and liquidity costs. Further will the technical compliance with the new rules and required key ratios be a significant challenge in itself. This thesis will present the beginning of today’s regulatory set of regulations which began in July 1988 known as the Basel I Accord and explain the different intermediate stages until the newest regulatory framework: Basel III. The Basel III Accord will be gradually implemented over a transition period from 2013 - 2018. Further to analyzing the impact of the new Accord on the financial system and Switzerland in particular, this thesis will also review the sufficiency of different key ratios that have to be achieved by the Banks in order to meet the regulators standards and will provide key findings and suggestions for improvement for the body of rules to be more efficient and meaningful. The latest official financial statements by the Banks suggest that the system-relevant banks are well on the way of not only meeting the required standards but also to find alternatives to maintain current profitability. [...]

Download or read book From Basel I to Basel III Sequencing Implementation in Developing Economies written by Caio Ferreira and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing economies can strengthen their financial systems by implementing the main elements of global regulatory reform. But to build an effective prudential framework, they may need to adapt international standards taking into account the sophistication and size of their financial institutions, the relevance of different financial operations in their market, the granularity of information available and the capacity of their supervisors. Under a proportionate application of the Basel standards, smaller institutions with less complex business models would be subject to a simpler regulatory framework that enhances the resilience of the financial sector without generating disproportionate compliance costs. This paper provides guidance on how non-Basel Committee member countries could incorporate banks’ capital and liquidity standards into their framework. It builds on the experience gained by the authors in the course of their work in providing technical assistance on—and assessing compliance with—international standards in banking supervision.