Basel III regulation intent is to increase the resiliency of banks through effective risk management practices that can … United States economy. The viral spread of operational losses through global markets by interconnected multinational banks … practices posed by the Basel III regulation for BHCs, which may reduce the spread of significant losses in the banks. Through …

Banks are growing ever larger compared to their national economies. We show that increases in relative bank size … (measured as a bank's liabilities divided by national GDP) are linked to banks displaying higher tail risk. This effect is not … entirely due to risk channels that disproportionately expose relatively large banks to systematic tail risks, sovereign risks …