Discover how the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision develops international banking regulations through collaboration with central banks around the world.

The capital-to-risk weighted assets ratio, also known as the capital adequacy ratio, is one of the most important financial ratios used by investors and analysts. The ratio measures a bank's financial ...

Bowman's Basel III relief may ease MSR capital but won't bring banks back; risk weights and economics still favor nonbanks, according to the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors ...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, regulators implemented Basel III to fortify the global banking system. Among its many provisions, collateral optimization emerged as a critical strategy ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 2011, senior executives at JPMorgan Chase & Co told one of the bank's trading and hedging groups to scale back its riskier positions as new regulations would make these bets ...

On July 27, 2023, the U.S. Federal Reserve released its long-anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR), introducing sweeping changes to capital management and regulatory reporting. The proposal ...

Banks are urging federal banking regulators to simplify and relax upcoming capital rules, warning that current proposals could overburden lenders and therefore constrain credit to households and ...

There are numerous financial ratios that help determine the financial health of a company. One of the most important financial ratios, and one carefully regarded by regulators, is the capital-to-risk ...