Basel Accords

Short description: Banking supervision accords issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

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* Banking (Regulation)
* Monetary policy
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* Risk
* Risk management
* Regulatory capital
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Pillar 1: Regulatory capital

* Credit risk
* Standardized
* IRB Approach
* F-IRB
* A-IRB
* PD
* LGD
* CCF
* EAD
* Operational risk
* Basic
* Standardized
* AMA
* Market risk
* Duration
* Value at risk

Pillar 2: Supervisory review

* Economic capital
* Liquidity risk
* Legal risk

Pillar 3: Market disclosure

* Disclosure

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The Basel Accords[lower-alpha 1] refer to the banking supervision accords (recommendations on banking regulations) issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).[1]

Basel I was developed through deliberations among central bankers from major countries. In 1988, the Basel Committee published a set of minimum capital requirements for banks. This is also known as the 1988 Basel Accord, and was enforced by law in the Group of Ten (G-10) countries in 1992. A new set of rules known as Basel II was developed and published in 2004 to supersede the Basel I accords. Basel III was a set of enhancements to in response to the 2008 financial crisis. It does not supersede either Basel I or II but focuses on reforms to the Basel II framework to address specific issues, including related to the risk of a bank run.[citation needed]

The Basel Accords have been integrated into the consolidated Basel Framework, which comprises all of the current and forthcoming standards of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.[2][3]

## Contents

* 1 The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
* 2 Basel I: the Basel Capital Accord
* 3 Basel II: the new capital framework
* 4 Basel III: responding to the 2008 financial crisis
* 5 Criticism
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes
* 8 References
* 9 Further reading

## The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Main article: Organization:Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Formerly, the Basel Committee consisted of representatives from central banks and regulatory authorities of the Group of Ten countries plus Luxembourg and Spain. Since 2009, all of the other G-20 major economies are represented, as well as some other major banking locales such as Hong Kong and Singapore.[lower-alpha 2]

The Committee does not have the authority to enforce recommendations, although most member countries as well as some other countries tend to implement the Committee's policies. This means that recommendations are enforced through national (or EU-wide) laws and regulations, rather than as a result of the committee's recommendations - thus some time may pass and, potentially, some unilateral changes may be made, between the international recommendations for minimum standards being agreed and implementation as law at the national level.[citation needed]

The regulatory standards published by the committee are commonly known as Basel Accords.They are called the Basel Accords as the BCBS maintains its secretariat at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland and the committee normally meets there. The Basel Accords is a set of recommendations for regulations in the banking industry.[citation needed]

## Basel I: the Basel Capital Accord

Main article: Finance:Basel I

Deliberations by central bankers from major countries resulted in the Basel Capital Accord, which was published in 1988 and covered capital requirements for credit risk. The Accord was enforced by law in the Group of Ten (G-10) countries in 1992.

The Basel Accord was augmented in 1996 with a framework for market risk, which included both a standardised approach and a modelled approach, the latter based on value at risk.[1]

## Basel II: the new capital framework

Published in 2004, Basel II was a new capital framework to supersede the Basel I framework. It introduced "three pillars":[1]

1. Minimum capital requirements, which sought to develop and expand the standardised rules set out in the 1988 Accord;
2. Supervisory review of an institution's capital adequacy and internal assessment process;
3. Effective use of disclosure as a lever to strengthen market discipline and encourage sound banking practices.

Capital requirements for operational risk were introduced for the first time. The ratio of equity and credit is 8% under Basel II. The standards were revised several times during subsequent years.[1]

Bank regulators in the United States took the position of requiring a bank to follow the set of rules (Basel I or Basel II) giving the more conservative approach for the bank. Because of this it was anticipated that only the few very largest US banks would operate under the Basel II rules, the others being regulated under the Basel I framework. However Basel II standards were criticised by some for allowing banks to take on too much risk with too little capital. This was considered part of the cause of the US subprime mortgage crisis, which started in 2008.

The Basel 2.5 revisions introduced stressed VaR and IRC for modelled market risk in 2009-10.[1]

## Basel III: responding to the 2008 financial crisis

Main article: Finance:Basel III

Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Basel III reforms were published in 2010/11. The standards set new definitions of capital, higher capital ratio requirements, and a leverage ratio requirement as a "back stop" measure. Risk-based capital requirements (RWAs) for CVA risk and interest rate risk in the banking book were introduced for the first time, along with a large exposures framework, a revised securitisation framework, and a standardised approach to counterparty credit risk (SA-CCR) to measure exposure to derivative transactions. A specific framework for exposures to central counterparty clearing was introduced.[4]

The BCBS also published regulatory standards for the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR);[5]

In subsequent years, the Basel Committee updated the standards for market risk, based on a “Fundamental Review of the Trading Book” (FRTB).[6] In addition, further reforms of the framework were published by the Basel Committee in 2017 under the title Finance:Basel III: Finalising post-crisis reforms.[2] These reforms were sometimes referred to as "Basel IV". However, the secretary general of the Basel Committee said, in a 2016 speech, that he did not believe the changes are substantial enough to warrant that title and the Basel Committee refer to only three Basel Accords.[7][1] These new standards came into effect on 1 January 2023, although national implementation of the standards is generally running behind this schedule and still ongoing.

## Criticism

The framework's approach to risk which is based on risk weights derived from the past was criticised for failing to account for the uncertainty in the future.[8] A recent OECD study suggest that bank regulation based on the Basel accords encourage unconventional business practices and contributed to or even reinforced adverse systemic shocks that materialised during the 2008 financial crisis. According to the study, capital regulation based on risk-weighted assets encourages innovation designed to circumvent regulatory requirements and shifts banks' focus away from their core economic functions. Tighter capital requirements based on risk-weighted assets, introduced in the Basel III, may further contribute to these skewed incentives. New liquidity regulation, notwithstanding its good intentions, is another likely candidate to increase bank incentives to exploit regulation.[9]

In an October 24, 2020 speech at the Bund Financial Summit in Shanghai, Jack Ma described the Basel Accords as a "club for the elderly."[10]: 50

## See also

* Basel IA
* Capital Requirements Directive
* Financial Stability Board

## Notes

1. ↑ The Basel Committee is named after the city of Basel, Switzerland. In early publications, the Committee sometimes used the British spelling "Basle" or the French spelling "Bâle," names that are sometimes still used in the media. More recently, the Committee has deferred to the predominantly German-speaking population of the region and used the spelling "Basel", which is also a common spelling in English.
2. ↑ See the Committee article for a full list of members.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "History of the Basel Committee". 9 October 2014. https://www.bis.org/bcbs/history.htm.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Basel III: International regulatory framework for banks". 7 December 2017. https://www.bis.org/bcbs/basel3.htm.
3. ↑ "Basel Framework". https://www.bis.org/basel_framework/index.htm.
4. ↑ "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems - revised version June 2011". June 2011. https://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs189.htm.
5. ↑ "Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring". 16 December 2010. https://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs188.htm.
6. ↑ Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (January 2019). "Explanatory note on the minimum capital requirements for market risk". https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d457_note.pdf.
7. ↑ Coen, William (5 April 2016). "The global policy reform agenda: Completing the job". https://www.bis.org/speeches/sp160405.htm.
8. ↑ Kay, John; King, Mervyn (2020). Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers. National Geographic Books. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-324-00477-6.
9. ↑ ﻿Systemically Important Banks and Capital Regulation Challenges﻿ (Report). OECD Economics Department Working Papers. 2012. doi:10.1787/5kg0ps8cq8q6-en.
10. ↑ Zhang, Angela Huyue (2024). High Wire. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197682258.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-768225-8.

## Further reading

* Deventer, Donald R. Van; Mesler, Mark (2003) (in en). Credit Risk Models and the Basel Accords. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-82091-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DXNnQgAACAAJ.
* Elbannan, Mona (2011) (in en). Basel Accords Consequences. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH KG. ISBN 978-3-8443-8363-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=nIKfXwAACAAJ.
* Eubanks, Walter W.; Division, Government and Finance (2006) (in en). The Basel Accords: The Implementation of II and the Modification of I. Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress. https://books.google.com/books?id=pAeFGwAACAAJ.
* Han, Yicheng (2020) (in en). Historical Capital Regulation of Banks. Standards and Influence of Basel Accords. GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-346-30865-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=beYszgEACAAJ.
* Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Rahim, Rossazana Ab; Riaz, Samina (2019) (in en). Basel Accords, Bank Capital and Portfolio Risk Behavior. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-3889-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=uhCsDwAAQBAJ.
* Quillin, Bryce (2008) (in en). International Financial Co-Operation: Political Economics of Compliance with the 1988 Basel Accord. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-97959-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=5cuTAgAAQBAJ.
* Onyiriuba, Leo (2016). "Applications of Basel Accords in Emerging Economies". Emerging Market Bank Lending and Credit Risk Control. pp. 617–635. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803438-5.00036-2. ISBN 978-0-12-803438-5.
* Ong, Michael (2007). The Basel Handbook: A Guide for Financial Practitioners. Risk Books. ISBN 9781904339557.

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