ASSIGNMENT The 2007-08 global financial crisis has revealed a severe effect of financial crisis on the economy at the global scale, which highlights the importance of the banking sector

ASSIGNMENT

The 2007-08 global financial crisis has revealed a severe effect of financial crisis on the economy at the global scale, which highlights the importance of the banking sector. As part of the responses, the Basel Committee proposed the new Basel III Capital Accord on 1 June 2011 to promote financial stability.

Requirement: In the context of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and Basel capital regulation, the essay should build discussions along the following lines:

(1) briefly describe how the 2007-08 global financial crisis unfolded; (30 marks)

(2) explain the rationale of banking regulation; (30 marks)

(3) explain the limitations of Basel II and the main changes in the requirements in Basel III; (40marks)

(4) Please follow the standard structure (Outline) of the essay: Cover page with the course and student detaile,Table of contents ,Abstract, Introduction ,Main body of the essay, conclusion, suggestions and recommendations, bibliography and appendices if any.

Suggested reading: See reading lists in the lecture slides of relevant topics as a primary source of information and students are expected to expand their reading beyond the lists, such as academic journal articles.

This individual essay (2500 +/- 10% words)