Yes. Basel Accord was formulated at Bank Of International Settlement whose office is in Basel Switzerland.

capital requirements, supervisory review and market discipline are the three pillar's of Basel accord 2.

As far as i know tha CAR in the new BASEL II Accord is not 8% it is infact 12 %, i.e the banks are supposed to maintain a higher capital to mitigate future risks.

Basel III (or the Third Basel Accord) is a global, voluntary regulatory framework on bank capital adequacy, stress testing, and market liquidity risk. Basel III is intended to strengthen bank capital requirements by increasing bank liquidity and decreasing bank leverage.

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Basel I was an international accord to set minimum levels of capital for banks. It was designed to ensure that lenders were sufficiently well capitalized to protect depositors and the financial system.

The first Basel Accord however was replaced by a new accord, Basel II. The new accord was introduced to keep pace with the increased sophistication of lenders' operations and risk management and overcome some of the distortions caused by the lack of risk assessment divisions in Basel I.

Basel I required lenders to calculate a minimum level of capital based on a single risk weight for each of a limited number of asset classes, e.g., mortgages, consumer lending, corporate loans, exposures to sovereigns. Basel II goes well beyond this, allowing some lenders to use their own risk measurement models to calculate required regulatory capital whilst seeking to ensure that lenders establish a culture with risk management at the heart of the organization up to the highest managerial level.