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Business Mlm Opportunity Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan spoke to community bankers attending their national convention via satellite Friday, assuring them that the Fed would protect them from the Basel accord.

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Business Homebased Opportunity March 11, 2005 (AXcess News) New York - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan spoke to community bankers attending their national convention via satellite Friday, assuring them that the Fed would protect them from the Basel accord.

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Based Business Home Mlm While protection itself was not guaranteed, Fed Chairman Greenspan told members of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) that a new global pact on banking could hurt small business accounts that are the heart of local community banks. His assurance to protect ICBA member banks came in the form of adjusting capital rules to ease the Basel accord's effects."Although they will not be required to adopt the new capital rules, many community and regional banks are uneasy that they may be left at a competitive disadvantage after the 2008 adoption of the new rules by their larger rivals," said Greenspan.

Business New Opportunity The Basel II accord will provide for varying risk to capital ratios that could put small community banks at a disadvantage.

Business Home Online Central bank governors and the heads of bank supervisory authorities in the Group of Ten (G10) countries met in June 2004 to endorse the new capital adequacy framework commonly known as Basel II. The meeting took place at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, one day after the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision approved its submission to the governors and supervisors for review.The Basel II Framework sets out the details for adopting more risk-sensitive minimum capital requirements for banking

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Business Investment With small community banks uneasy that they may be at a disadvantage to their larger rivals, Greenspan tried to assure ICBA members that the Fed would be examining the competitive implications of Basel II implementation. "Where concerns appear valid, we and the other federal banking agencies will this summer propose some options for simple revisions to the current capital rules that would mitigate any unintended and undesired competitive distortions engendered by the new Accord," said Greenspan.

Business Home Making Money The Basel II Accord offers a new set of standards for establishing minimum capital requirements for banking organisations. The technical challenge for banks has been to determine how much capital is necessary to serve as a sufficient buffer against unexpected losses. The intial 1988 Basel Capital Accord set out the first internationally accepted definition of, and a minimum measure for, bank capital.

Based Business Free Home But under Basel II larger banks can use their own risk models. The Fed is looking to provide community banks with options to those capital considerations, adjusting the rule to make it more competitive for community banks. Those rule adjustments apply to Basel I and are being referred to as "Basel I-A" by lenders. ICBA spokesperson Karen Thomas said, "we will wait until this summer to see what those rule adjustments hold for community banks."

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