Banking

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The 

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is an institution


created by the central bank Governors of the Group of Ten nations. It
was created in 1974 and meets regularly four times a year.

The Group of Ten signed the Smithsonian Agreement in December


1971, replacing the world's fixed exchange rate regime with a floating
exchange rate regime.

Belgium, Canada, France, Italy,Japan, the Netherlands, the United


Kingdom, and the United States—and the central banks of two
others, Germany and Sweden,

The Basel I accord dealt with only parts of each of these pillars. For
example: with respect to the first Basel II pillar, only one risk, credit risk,
was dealt with in a simple manner while market risk was an
afterthought; operational risk was not dealt with at all.

Basel II uses a "three pillars" concept – (1) minimum capital


requirements (addressing risk), (2) supervisory review and (3) market
discipline.

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