Proposals to drastically limit banks' ability to use internal risk-based models to calculate credit risk capital will encourage lending to less creditworthy counterparties, trade associations have ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's largest banks will have less discretion over how much capital to hold against loans turning sour, global regulators proposed on Thursday. Regulators want to cut ...

European companies are voicing concerns over increased funding costs after the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) announced plans to curb banks' use of internal models to calculate credit ...

Basel III, with its requirement that banks risk-weight their assets to calculate their capital levels, will bring about sweeping changes in the way banks assess the credits on their books. Banks may ...

Implementing robust capital standards that give individual institutions sufficient buffers from extreme events and protect the system at-large has been a major challenge for regulators and the Basel ...