Fifteen years after the introduction of the Basel II Accord, which thoroughly revised the capital framework for banks, internal models are a full part of the supervisory toolkit and the risk management framework of financial institutions. The debate around models has gone through different...

Fifteen years after the introduction of the Basel II Accord, which thoroughly revised the capital framework for banks, internal models are a full part of the supervisory toolkit and the risk management framework of financial institutions. The debate around models has gone through different...

Fifteen years after the introduction of the Basel II Accord, which thoroughly revised the capital framework for banks, internal models are a full part of the supervisory toolkit and the risk management framework of financial institutions. The debate around models has gone through different...

This paper examines the evolution of the Pillar 2 framework for banks, introduced by the Basel 2 Accord, and discusses the main issues at stake in the current policy debate. The main objective of Pillar 2 was to complement the minimum requirements established by regulators (Pillar 1) with...

Since mid-2007, an increasing number of people among economists, policy-makers and market operators have blamed the Basel II framework for banks' capital adequacy to be a major cause for the subprime financial crisis. While several issues related to the functioning of financial markets have been...

After a decade of deep transformation, which influenced both lending policies and risk management, Italy�s mutual banks are faced with the upcoming Basel III reform. Economic trends continue to exert pressure on the traditional bank business model. The entry into force of Basel III provides...

In December 2010 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a set of new regulations for banks in response to the financial crisis. This paper aims at evaluating the possible effects of the new framework on banks� available regulatory capital and risk-weighted assets and assessing...

Il Credito Cooperativo giunge alla sfida di Basilea 3 dopo un decennio di profonde trasformazioni, che hanno influito sulle politiche creditizie e sulle modalità di gestione dei rischi; i fattori congiunturali continuano a esercitare pressione sul modello di business tradizionale. La prossima...

In December 2010 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a set of new regulations for banks in response to the financial crisis. This paper aims at evaluating the possible effects of the new framework on banks' available regulatory capital and risk-weighted assets and assessing...