The Basel Committee, in its Customer due diligence for banks (CDD) paper of October 2001, issued prudential guidance in this area.

Better than Basel

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For example, the Basel Convention's Technical Cooperation Trust Fund is managed by an existing entity, the Basel Secretariat.

Members of the Basel Convention Open ended Working Group and the Secretariat of the Basel Convention could provide relevant expertise.

Consider the Basel III international banking standards.

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(c) Basel Convention Coordinating Centre (BCCC) Uruguay

The Basel Convention Secretariat manages the Fund.

Meanwhile, agreeing on Basel 3 banking standards in just two years is commendable, especially as Basel 2 took a decade to negotiate.

Elsewhere, various versions of the Basel 1 and Basel 2 accords on international banking standards are in operation, sometimes with ad hoc supplements.

Basel Committee's work on combating financing of terrorism

There has been commendable progress on the Basel 3 capital requirements for banks, with 25 of 27 Basel Committee members having issued final rules.

More worryingly, Basel 3 retains, if not deepens, biases in the Basel 2 rules against bank lending to developing countries, such as for trade finance.

Smarter capital requirements better Basel rules aren t the answer.

A version from the canton of Basel also exists.

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Basel Convention regional centres for training and technical transfer

The problem is that the Basel capital rules whether Basel I, II, or III are of no help in separating the weak banks from the sound ones.

For example, the Basel Convention Technical Cooperation Trust Fund, which relies on voluntary contributions, has been able to provide only limited and generally inadequate resources, leading Basel Convention parties to begin the process of determining the feasibility of appropriate and predictable financial mechanisms for the Basel Convention.

The nearest big cities are Paris, Nancy, Strasbourg, Basel, and Dijon.

In October 2004 the Basel Committee issued Consolidated KYC Risk Management.

Paragraph 1 of Article 14 of the Basel Convention states that

Mexico, for example, recently adopted ahead of schedule the changes in capital requirements for banks recommended by the Third Basel Accord (Basel III), in order to reduce leverage and increase stability.

Even the new Basel 3 banking standards have been diluted and postponed.

(2nd Basel 7 points, 3rd Liverpool 5 points, 4th Ludogorets 4 points).

They could be co located in a regulatory Tower of Babel in Basel.

Stand Alone Mechanism with Voluntary Contributions The Basel Convention Technical Cooperation Trust Fund

The Basel Secretariat would examine the possibility of holding such a meeting in conjunction with the meeting of the Open ended Working Group of the Basel Convention, to be held in early April 2006.

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None of the major banks met even the Basel 1 standards for capital adequacy.

The representative of the Basel Convention Secretariat made a brief presentation on the issue.

This is particularly emphasized for linkages to the regional centres of the Basel Convention.