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Bobsguide, 16th August 2011: Basel III: a panacea or too little, too late?

Over the last few years measures have been proposed and debated at length by regulators, bankers, politicians and others in order to address the issues raised by the financial crisis. As the organisation responsible for providing a supranational framework for banking regulation, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) assessed these measures and formed Basel III. This new framework outlines a new regulatory standard on bank capital adequacy and liquidity to banks across the world - but how sure can we be that it has truly covered the chasms revealed by the crisis? Selwyn Blair-Ford, head of global regulatory policy at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, takes a look.

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