Regulation – Basel’s big exam

    Headline: Regulation – Basel’s big exam Source: Euromoney Date: May 2000 Author: David Shirreff Proposals from Basel to reform the bank capital adequacy framework have triggered a wide-reaching debate on the nature of bank capital, liquidity and valuation. A hasty conclusion could waste some valuable new thinking. David Shirreff reports If the Basel […]

    Headline: Regulation – Basel’s big exam
Source: Euromoney
Date: May 2000
Author: David Shirreff

Proposals from Basel to reform the bank capital adequacy framework have triggered a wide-reaching debate on the nature of bank capital, liquidity and valuation. A hasty conclusion could waste some valuable new thinking. David Shirreff reports

If the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s proposals for a new capital adequacy framework were applied raw tomorrow, they would be a disaster. Nearly everyone agrees about that.






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