German chancellor Gerhard Schröder told a news conference in Berlin that Germany’s aim of preventing the Basel II bank capital adequacy Accord leading to more expensive loans for its small and ...
"We won't block it," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told an economics conference in Basel, Switzerland. "But we will push that we get sufficient time to translate the rules and that the ...
BERLIN -- Germany lifted its objections to the Basel II bank accord in early July, welcoming a compromise on lending to small businesses that would be discussed by global banking regulators at a ...