International Concerns for Evaluating and Preventing the Bank Risks – Basel I Versus Basel II Versus Basel III

An ongoing concern of the banks at international level is implementing and respecting the international banking standards, in order to align with the rules imposed by the practice field and in the recognition of the national commercial banks by business partners and by customers worldwide. In this paper I proposed an approach to evolution and comparative of the main agreements governing the international banking activity, namely Basel I, Basel II and Basel III, in order to reflect the motivations for which they have appeared and to show the main changes that must be made by the commercial banks in order to accommodate to the requirements imposed.