Of course emerging worries about the associated risks and their different dimensions have motivated a fundamental rethinking of the Basle capital adequacy standards, regulations and supervision.
Besides complexities of capturing and estimating all types of risks, concerns regarding contagion of volatility in one segment of the market to another, have motivated BIS to define more elaborately the requirements for safeguarding the financial sector by introducing stringent prudential regulation, restraints on counterparty exposures, using joint conglomerate supervision systems to keep a vigilance on risk exposures and, verifying the corporate governance standards by trying to keep them as uniform as possible.