This study assesses the impact of the Basel III regulatory framework on interbank contagion. It focuses on the direct interbank contagion that spreads via interbank foreign claims among national banking sectors. A balance sheet-based network model employs the quarterly consolidated banking statistics, collected by the Bank for International Settlements, to simulate the consequences of credit and funding shock under stressed market conditions. Compared to the Basel II, the Basel III regulatory framework reduces the probability of interbank contagion (following a simulated default of one banking sector) from 31% to 14% and lowers the impact of contagion by 63% in terms of average loss for a banking sector. The simulations under both regulatory frameworks show that relatively smaller banking sectors can trigger severe interbank contagion comparable to large banking sectors. Throughout the 2005-2009 period, the Basel III regulatory framework stabilizes the fluctuations of the scope of interbank contagion.

Thesis (M.M. (Public and Development Management))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Wits School of Governance, 2016. / Title: The relevance of the Basel III Accord within South African Banking. There are numerous countries which are regulated by the Basel II Accord that manifested different results from the 2007 subprime crisis. The United States and some European Countries emanated the subprime crises and experienced massive decline in market confidence as write-offs became the order of the day. The write offs became so severe that the Federal Bank of the United States had to step in to offer massive bailouts to rescue the American banking industry. However, conversely to what happened in America, there some countries (including South Africa) which were also regulated by the Basel II Accord but did not experience massive write-offs as a result of the subprime crisis? This begs a question of whether there is a deeper reason for the failure of the American and European banking system to the extent that they had to bailout their banks during the 2007 financial crisis. With this question remaining unanswered, there remains skepticism on whether a country regulator can rely on implementing the Basel III Accord for improved banking sector resilience. In particular, the stringent requirements of the introduction of liquidity standards will be costly to implement in South Africa. Therefore, a question will need to be asked whether the Basel III Accord is relevant in South Africa. / GR2018

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Background: Small businesses are considered as a valuable source for the society and the economic growth and bank loan is the main source of finance for them. Small businesses are commonly seen as riskier than larger businesses it is thus noteworthy to examine banks’ credit assessment for small businesses. The implementation of the Basel III Accord will start in 2013 with the aim to generate further protection of financial stability and promote sustainable economic growth, and the main idea underlying Basel III is to increase the capital basis of banks. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe how larger and smaller banks in Sweden are managing credit assessment of small businesses, and if this process differs according to the size of the bank. The authors further want to investigate how expectations of new capital regulations, in form of Basel III, affect the credit assessment and if it is affecting the ability of small businesses to receive loans. Method: In order to meet the purpose of the thesis a mixed model approach is used. The authors conducted semi-structured interviews with representatives from three smaller and three larger banks. Additional, statistics were computed in order to examine the economic state of the Swedish market, where also an archival research with 10 allocated banks operating with corporate services was executed. Conclusions: The banks have a well-developed credit process where building a mutual trust relationship with the customer is crucial. If the lender has a good relationship with the customer, it will ease the collection of credible information and thus enhance the process of making right decision. The research examined minor differences between smaller and larger banks in their credit assessment. Currently, the banks do not see any problems with adjusting to the new regulation and thus do not see specific effects for small businesses and their ability to receive loans. The effects that can be identified by the expectations of Basel III are the banks’ concern of charging the right price for the right risk and the demand of holding more capital when lending to businesses. The banks have come a long way on the adjustment to Basel III, which has pros and cons, thus it implies that banks are already charging customers for the effect of the regulations that will not be 100 percent implemented until 2019. The difference that was identified between larger and smaller banks is that larger banks seem to have more established strategies when working on the implementation of Basel III.

The banking sector plays an important part of the modern society and a collapse of the financial system would have severe consequences for the society. In order to protect the system from a systemic collapse, regulations have been put in place to ensure a more stable financial system. Because of the financial instabilities experienced in recent years, the Basel Committee has released an improved framework in order to deal with the systemic risk which contributed to the crisis. Parts of the new Basel III Accord will be implemented in 2013, and this is why we have chosen to study how Swedish banks perceive the impact of the Basel III Accord and its effect on systemic risk. Our intention is to study the perception of the impact of the Basel III framework on the Swedish bank sector through a study of the four largest banks in Sweden. We examine how these four banks expect the Basel III Accord to affect systemic risk and consequently improve the protection of these banks, and also the Swedish banking industry and more generally the Swedish economy. The research paradigm of this study is constructivism, which is in line with our research question and purpose, since we have studied and analyzed the perceptions of the Swedish banking sector. In order to answer our research question and purpose we have used an inductive research approach, as well as a qualitative research strategy. The data was collected through 10 semi-structured interviews with people from the four largest banks in Sweden. The theoretical frame of reference is divided into four parts. The first part consists of a discussion on the Swedish banking sector, as well as a presentation of the four largest banks. In the second part of the chapter we review the current research regarding systemic risk. We then present the most important aspects and elements of the forthcoming Basel III Accord and at last we assemble the three areas together in a final discussion. The findings in the study disclose new knowledge. The knowledge consist of the Swedish banks’, through the 10 interviewees, perception of the impact of the Basel III Accord and its effect on systemic risk. The Swedish banks hold a positive perception of: higher capital requirements set out in Basel III, the counter cyclical buffer, the basic concept of implementing liquidity standards, the Basel III will (1) to some degree reduce systemic risk, (2) improve the protection of the Swedish banks, (3) decrease the probability of financial instabilities, and (4) enhance the Swedish banks ability to meet a new financial crisis. The Swedish banks hold a neutral perception of: the risk coverage and the LCR. The Swedish banks hold a negative perception of: the higher capital requirements implemented in Sweden, the frameworks’ competitive disadvantage, the capital conservation buffer, the NSFR, the leverage ratio, that the Basel III will (1) increase costs that will affect customers, shareholders and/or employees negatively, (2) impair growth, and (3) not be able to prevent a new kind of financial crisis.

Our country, the same type of deposit applies the same interest rate. The reserve ratio in the world has gradually been reduced even adjusted to zero. Because of the control policy increases in bank operating costs, and impact the efficiency of resource allocationa. The competent national authorities still see the control policy as the main monetary policy. Domestic banks under this system face a very high control costs. Presently our country is still unable to adopt "zero" reserve, so this study consider existing banking supervision system to develop a "Risk-Based Deposit System" for existing national reserve system.The concept of risk stratification derives from deposit insurance, using the capital adequacy ratio, banks integrated risk rating score and the financial leverage ratio. Each Bank based on their respective level of risk to employ different deposit reserve ratio. "Risk-Based Deposit System" can make the banking sector to spontaneously reduce their own business risk in order to meet the lower deposit reserve ratio of the risk criteria. Therefore, it will help banking sector to reduce regulatory burden, and assist banks in Taiwan to follow Basel III to strengthen its competitiveness and meet the world trend.

in English - Diploma thesis - Filip Košťál The topic of this thesis is "Legal Regulation of Banking Activities". Firstly, the thesis describes reasons and theoretical basis for regulation of banks. Next, the thesis focuses on three levels of regulation of banking, i.e., regulation within the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which prepares recommendations, which, however, are mostly followed by regulatory activities at the European Union level. Last but not least, the thesis also focuses on Czech legislation, which is, together with directly applicable regulations of the European Union binding for banks carrying out activities in the Czech Republic. The main purpose of this thesis is to provide the reader with a consolidated insight into all three levels of banking regulation and point out potentially problematic points arising out of it. The thesis also illustrates some of the aspects of banking regulation on specific examples from the Czech banking sector. The abovementioned regulatory measures deal mostly with prudential rules for banks. The thesis, however, focuses also on some other selected areas of banking regulation, namely banking secrecy and its release with regard to credit registers, obligations of banks arising out of the act on selected measures against legitimisation of...

The following pages of my master thesis aim to acquaint the reader with the major changes brought about by Basel III banking regulation. This new regulatory framework was created in response to the financial crisis (beginning in 2007), which revealed some weaknesses in the original Basel II regulation, and its purpose is to prevent future similar situations in the financial market by increasing the stability and resilience of the banking sector. Impacts of Basel III are reflected primarily in increased demand for quality capital used by banks and maintaining sufficient liquidity. As shown by the results of the analysis, these factors have further effect on interest spread of banks and the real economy.

Since the financial crisis in -08 there has been a need in regulating banks and their behavior. After a while, the Basel committee took action and started to work on the third version of the Basel framework, forcing banks to maintain higher equity and to be prepared for fast drops in liquidity on the market. The banking industry quickly responded that this could create costs over the global economic market. The argument came from the idea that debt is generally cheaper to hold compared to equity. They also expected the lending growth to decrease since the economy declined, which in turn would lead to a lower net interest margin and loss of profit. There has been theory that supports their claim, but it is still lack of empirical evidence. Therefore, a need for statistical proof of what will happen to banks when regulation is increased. Based on the background, the study is aiming to answer the research question:   “What effects has the increased requirements (capital ratios, restructuring of capital) ofthe ongoing implementation ofBasel III had on US Banks’ cost of capital, lending growth and net interest margin?”   Through several regression models tested, a quantitative study was performed which found that the increased requirements of capital and capital restructuring does not affect US banks’ lending growth. Although, the capital restrains did affect banks’ cost of capital negatively as it decreased and their net interest margin as it also decreased. The cost of capital analysis showed that there must be two counteracting forces that affects the variable, where the largest one decides which way it goes. The first one is that it should increase due to more expensive financing, and the other that banks become less risky for investors to invest in. This leading to the banks’ profitability not being as threatened as one might believe.   Contributions that the study brought are showing regulators that it is a necessity to be careful when implementing new regulation, as banks might lose some of their profit from the action which could be damaging for them. It also made sure that one must not discount for the effect of reduced systematic risk, and the gain that comes from it. In the end, developing of new regulation comes down to one thing; to make our economic society safer.

Thesis (M.M. (Finance & Investment))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, 2013. / The recent market turmoil caused by the subprime crisis highlighted the fact that an inappropriate liquidity risk management process may strongly affect the capacity of banks to maintain their financial equilibrium and economic performance under stress conditions. In addition, it has been observed that the most significant challenge facing banks when they are adopting new regulations such as Basel I, Basel II and now Basel III is the imminent threat of imbalances between the interests of the shareholders and those of the regulator (Chabanel, 2011). This thesis proposes a framework on liquidity risk management in the banking book that a bank may adopt so as to improve the way in it could manage the anticipated changes within tits regulatory environment.