Basel III countercyclical capital rules: implications for South Africa

Countercyclical Bank Capital Requirement and Optimized Monetary Policy Rules

Bank of Canada working papers are theoretical or empirical works-in-progress on subjects in economics and finance. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors. No responsibility for them should be attributed to the Bank of Canada. ii Acknowledgements We are grateful to participants of the workshop at the Bank of Canada for helpful comments. We thank Benjamin Evens for excellent r...

New Basel Capital Accord

Risk Management Framework in Islamic Banking: Basel II and III, Challenges and Implications in Islamic Banking

The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining risk management has not been uppermost on the Islamic banking sector’s agenda in recent years. It is crucial for Islamic banks (IBs) to have comprehensive risk management framework as there is growing realization among IBs that sustainable growth critically depends on the development of a comprehensive risk management framework. Islamic b...

Comparing Alternate Methods for Calculating CVA Capital Charges under Basel III

The global financial crisis brought counterparty credit risk and CVA very much into the spotlight. The Basel III proposals first published in December 2009 [2] introduced changes to the Basel II rules [1] including a new capital charge against the volatility of CVA. As the Basel committee noted, two thirds of the counterparty risk related losses during the credit crisis were actually from CVA v...

Forecasting monetary policy rules in South Africa

This paper is the first one to: (i) provide in-sample estimates of linear and nonlinear Taylor rules, augmented with an indicator of financial stability, for the case of South Africa, and (ii) analyse the ability of linear and nonlinear monetary policy rule specifications, as well as nonparametric and semiparametric models, to forecast the nominal interest rate setting that describes the South ...