banks are faced with the upcoming Basel III reform. Economic trends continue to exert pressure on the traditional bank … institutions relative to the new rules on capital and liquidity. The exercise paints a picture of broad compliance with the … prudential targets, although some elements warrant greater attention. On the one hand, although the banks� capital endowment is …

regulatory capital and risk-weighted assets and assessing their positioning with respect to future leverage and liquidity … June 2012, show that capital and liquidity positions relatively to the Basel 3 targets have improved considerably over the … interpreted as a forecast of capital and liquidity needs as they do not incorporate any assumption about future balance …

In 2007 the new framework for capital adequacy of banks (Basel 2), defined in 2004 by the Basel Committee for Banking … of the Italian banking system. For large internationally active intermediaries the capital requirements, calculated with … the advanced methodologies, decrease with respect to the current regime; for medium-sized banks the capital requirements …

attracting increased attention to the expected costs and benefits of such regulation; measures undertaken in response to the … at the Bank of Italy, proving to be a useful tool not only to refine the rules being adopted, but also to strengthen the …

We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …