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| 1. ''Bank regulation - capital requirements - Bank for International Settlements (BIS).''
| | The communication of risk and risk management outcomes for the purposes of comparing the results with the policy and the early identification of potential problems. |
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| Capital adequacy is the system of regulating banks (and other financial institutions) by requiring them to maintain minimum acceptable levels - and types - of capital, adequate to absorb their potential credit losses and other trading losses.
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| | ==See also== |
| | * [[Guide to risk management]] |
| | * [[Risk assessment]] |
| | * [[Risk evaluation]] |
| | * [[Risk identification]] |
| | * [[Risk management]] |
| | * [[Risk management reporting]] |
| | * [[Risk policy]] |
| | * [[Risk response]] |
| | * [[Statutory duty]] |
| | * [[Strategic Report]] |
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| Requirements are laid down internationally by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and implented and monitored by domestic central banks.
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| Historically, the BIS capital adequacy standard had been 8%.
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| Under the Basel III framework this standard was increased (strengthened) substantially - very roughly doubled - and its measurement refined.
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| 2. ''Insurance & other contexts.''
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| Similar risk management and regulation in other contexts.
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| For example, insurance companies.
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Bank for International Settlements]] (BIS)
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| * [[Basel II]]
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| * [[Basel 2.5]]
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| * [[Basel III]]
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| * [[Capital Adequacy Directive]]
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| * [[Capital Requirements Directive]]
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| * [[Central bank]]
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| * [[Common equity]]
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| * [[Countercyclical buffer]]
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| * [[Economic capital]]
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| * [[G-SIB]]
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| * [[Insurance]]
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| * [[IRB]]
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| * [[IRRBB]]
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| * [[GCLAC]]
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| * [[ICAAP]]
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| * [[Microprudential]]
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| * [[Pillar 1]]
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| * [[Pillar 2]]
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| * [[Pillar 3]]
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| * [[Primary Loss Absorbing Capital]]
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| * [[Regulatory capital]]
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| * [[Reserve requirements]]
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| * [[RWAs]]
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| * [[Settlement risk]]
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| * [[Slotting]]
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| * [[Solvency II]]
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