Nowadays, the whole world is trying to implement efficiently the Basel II, this moment being foreseen for 2006. In general, the banks consider that the frame established by Basel II, is having a positive effect over the increasing of the competitional capacity of the banks meeting the internal...

The qualifying of supervision as “prudential” is used to differentiate it from other forms of supervision, which regards issues related to banking consumer protection. In order to achieve its goal, prudential supervision needs relevant information, provided mostly by the credit institutions...

The new own funds adequacy device, officialy named “ International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards”, describes the most important benchmark framework for micro-prudential supervision at the moment. The publication of the final text in June 2004, after five years of...