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Regulation / Law Item: Basel II

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Description (HTML)	Basel II is a Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued regulation that aims to cover all identifiable sources of risk to the safety and stability of the global financial system. Basel II comprises three key pillars that lay out capital standards. The first focuses on minimal capital requirements that lay out the specific capital ratio and seek to define risk-weighted assets involved in these calculations. The second pillar subjects banks’ risk management models to regular stress testing, with required detailed results to ensure a supervisory review process is in place and that capital requirement calculations are conducted properly. The third pillar relates to market discipline, compelling banks to disclose their capital adequacy and risk profiles to all players, and is geared towards greater transparency and stability of the financial system.
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Lifecycle - Exist Start Date	2004-12-01
Lifecycle - Exist End Date	UNKNOWN
Updated by	webea.09
Updated on	2014-06-19 03:45:19
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