Can Palestine Banks Develop Credit Risk Management According to Basel III?

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated Palestine bank sector ability to develop credit risk management systems based on international standards (Basel Capital Accord). First, we evaluate the credit risk management systems and strategies that the operating bank in Palestinian banking system mandate. Second, we used the analytical description methodology to describe the new Basel accord for effective banking supervision. Our study showed that despite the banks prefer to use the Standardized Approach in measuring credit risk according to Basel committee approaches, it is still difficult for Palestinian banks to measure credit risks according to Basel III approaches.

Keywords: Basel III approach, capital adequacy, Risk management, Palestine Monetary Authorities (PMA)