Loans
US FDIC produces second Basel analysis paper
The US's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has published its second study of the Basel Accord revisions, titled Risk-based capital requirements for commercial lending: the impact of Basel II .
Basel II to boost both large and small banks' loan prices
The prices of some loan products for retail and middle-market corporate clients will almost certainly rise when banks implement the Basel II capital Accord in 2006, according to speakers at Risk 's Capital Allocation 2002 USA conference this morning.
Basel II unlikely to cause marked cut in lending to emerging markets, says Bank of England
LONDON - The proposed Basel II bank accord seems unlikely to cause a marked contraction in lending to borrowers in emerging markets, even low quality borrowers, the Bank of England said today.
FASB: loan commitments must be treated like derivatives
The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ruled last month that some unfunded loan commitments made by banks should be treated like derivatives and marked-to-market. The ruling came nearly nine months after Goldman Sachs first proposed the…
Basel inflicts collateral damage
The current Basel proposals could lead to the global spread of the type of systemic loan loss problems Japan is now experiencing, argues John Frye of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.