This paper addresses factors which have prompted the need for further revision of banking regulation, with particular reference to the Capital Requirements Directive. The Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), which comprises the 2006/48/EC Directive on the taking up and pursuit of the business...

The article surveys the literature pertaining to the Basel II and concludes with the concerns germane to India in this regard

The new Basel accord is slated to come into effect in India around 2007 raising the question of how the revised standards will influence bank behaviour. Using a simple theoretical model, it is shown that the revised accord will result in asymmetric differences in the efficacy of monetary policy...

The new Basel II enhancements cover all three pillars and they refer mainly to more strict rules and higher capital allocation for resecuritization and liquidity facilities, extension of prudent valuation guidance to the banking book, disclosure of liquidity information, more complex stress...

The amount and quality of the Australian banking sector’s capital has increased considerably over the past couple of years. As in a number of other countries, this is because the recent global financial crisis has prompted both markets and regulators to reappraise their views on...

The objective of this research is to determine the optimal rating philosophy for the rating of SMEs, and to describe the consequences of the chosen philosophy on several related aspects. As to our knowledge, this is the first paper that studies the considerations of financial institutions on...

The article deals with the analysis of operational risk in commercial banking in Slovakia. The importance of operational risk has increased due to Basel II including capital requirements for operational risk in new concept of capital adequacy. The aim of this paper is to quantify the...

This paper contains a critique of solvency regulation such as imposed on banks by Basel I and II. Banks investment divisions seek to maximize the expected rate of return on risk-adjusted capital. For them, a higher solvency level lowers the cost of refinancing but ties costly capital. Sequential...

Using binary choice logistic regression with quasi panel data (1998-2011) to develop a probability of default model for Russian banks we have found that: 1) there is a quadratic interaction between bank's capital adequacy ratio and its default probability; 2) there is a negative relationship...