- Basel IA
Basel IA was proposed as an intermediate between the current
Basel I accord and theBasel II accord that is being implemented. Basel IA would have been more risk sensitive than Basel I but would not be as complex as the advanced approach under Basel II.On
July 20 2007 by a deal between the various US banking regulators (The Federal Reserve , theOffice of the Comptroller of the Currency , theOffice of Thrift Supervision and theFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation ) it was decided to drop the proposed Basel IA and allow Basel II Standardised in its place.The US initially proposed that banks would need to use the advanced approach only if they were to implement Basel II. The idea of Basel IA was to enable smaller US banks to adopt a methodology that is more risk sensitive than Basel I that they are currently using for calculating capital adequacy. The Fed chairman mentioned that smaller banks who do not wish to move to Basel II Advanced or Basel IA could continue to operate under Basel I.
[http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/bcreg/2007/20070720/default.htm Press release] by the US Fed on the deal of 20 July 2007
More information about Basel IA can be found in this [http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/2006/06proposeac73a.html FDIC site] , [http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/bulletin/2006-50.txt OCC site] .
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