Abstract
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is a committee of banking supervisory authorities that was established by the central bank governors of the Group of Ten countries in 1975. It usually meets at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, where its permanent Secretariat is located. It sets out the details of the agreed Framework for measuring capital adequacy and the minimum standard. In Basel II to revise the 1988 Accord has been to develop a framework that would further strengthen the soundness and stability. The Committee is also retaining key elements of the 1988 capital adequacy framework, including the general requirement for banks to hold total capital equivalent to at least 8% of their risk-weighted assets; the basic structure of the 1996 Market Risk Amendment regarding the treatment of market risk; and the definition of eligible capital. Basel II is more risk sensitive than the 1988 Accord higher than allowed for in this Framework.
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