Basel III is a comprehensive set of reform measures, developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, to strengthen the regulation, supervision and risk management of the banking sector. These measures aim to:
• Improve the banking sector's ability to absorb shocks arising from financial and economic stress, whatever the source
• Improve risk management and governance
• Strengthen banks' transparency and disclosures.
The reforms target:
• Bank-level, or microprudential, regulation, which will help raise the resilience of individual banking institutions to periods of stress.
• Macroprudential, system wide risks that can build up across the banking sector as well as the procyclical amplification of these risks over time.
• These two approaches to supervision are complementary as greater resilience at the individual bank level reduces the risk of system wide shocks.
The issue of capital adequacy and oversight has attained further importance in the wake of 2008 financial crisis.
• Improve the banking sector's ability to absorb shocks arising from financial and economic stress, whatever the source
• Improve risk management and governance
• Strengthen banks' transparency and disclosures.
The reforms target:
• Bank-level, or microprudential, regulation, which will help raise the resilience of individual banking institutions to periods of stress.
• Macroprudential, system wide risks that can build up across the banking sector as well as the procyclical amplification of these risks over time.
• These two approaches to supervision are complementary as greater resilience at the individual bank level reduces the risk of system wide shocks.
The issue of capital adequacy and oversight has attained further importance in the wake of 2008 financial crisis.
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