System improvements needed for Basel II still uncertain

LONDON – There can be no certainty at present over precisely what steps banks need to take to ensure their risk management systems are compliant with the proposed Basel II capital accord aimed at making the world’s banking system safer, a UK regulator said today.

Regulators will need significant feedback from the banking industry to develop the final capital adequacy regimes that will apply, reasonably consistently, in all major countries, Kevin Ryan of the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) said. Ryan is an associate in the prudential standards division of the FSA, the UK’s chief financial market watchdog.

But in general any measures by firms to improve risk measurement and management should be beneficial as that is the point of the risk

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