Banks must maintain a balance between their own capital and the level of accepted aggregate risk to ensure financial stability. This paradigm is expressed in terms of capital adequacy requirements to both the minimum capital required to cover regulatory risks and the risk capital required to...

This paper discusses the framework of systemic risk assessment and monitoring in the Belarusian banking sector. It involves comparisons with similar approaches in Russia and Kazakhstan, showing that these countries are generally keen to adopt the tools proposed by the Basel Committee on Banking...