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 …

reduction in capital required for business loans to banks: 1) from the core Eurozone countries; 2) using IRB models, not …