Probability of default (PD)
Basel II simplifies management of credit portfolios, says BIS
Basel II will facilitate early detection of the quality of a credit portfolio because it allows for progressive estimation of the probability of default (PD) of borrowers, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Basel II simplifies management of credit portfolios, says BIS
Basel II will facilitate early detection of the quality of a credit portfolio because it allows for progressive estimation of the probability of default (PD) of borrowers, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Quantifying operational risk
This is the fifth of Charles Smithson's latest series of Class Notes, which will run in alternate issues of Risk through to the end of 2004. Class Notes is an educational series, designed to pull together the threads of recent developments and thinking…
Sponsor's article > Basel II: change is good
Basel II is an opportunity for banks to modernize and upgrade their risk practices, policies and technology to manage risk in a holistic fashion. Alliance & Leicester, a UK based financial institution with assets of over €55 billion, took early advantage…
Basel II Alert - Highlight of Critical Changes
It has been more than six years in the making, but the final text of the Basel II framework has arrived. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the text at the end of June to a mix response from the financial services industry.
Covenants: crisis of confidence
Financial covenants that rely too heavily on ratios are just not sophisticated enough to predict the likelihood of default, argues Sarah Woo. Loan originators must learn a trick or two from their colleagues in portfolio management and develop…
Covenants: crisis of confidence
Financial covenants that rely too heavily on ratios are just not sophisticated enough to predict the likelihood of default, argues Sarah Woo. Loan originators must learn a trick or two from their colleagues in portfolio management and develop…
PD estimates for Basel II
One of the main issues banks will have to face to comply with the new Basel II internal ratings-based approach is to prove that the long-run average probabilities of default they assign to their clients, which will be used as the basis for regulatory…
PD estimates for Basel II
One of the main issues banks will have to face to comply with the new Basel II internal ratings-based approach is to prove that the long-run average probabilities of default they assign to their clients, which will be used as the basis for regulatory…
CreditVantage launches new probability-of-default software
CreditVantage, a division of Fitch Risk specialising in credit risk software, has launched the CRS Corporate PD Model, a package that calculates the probability of default.
Mind the gap
UK mortgage lenders are grappling with Basel II. But there are still concerns about a credit risk management gap between the large and small lenders.
A-IRB is overly prescriptive, say US banks
Several US banks would like to see a full internal models-based approach to regulatory capital. According to their response to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the implementation of the new Basel Capital Accord, the banks said the…
'A good deal for regulators and banks'
Paul Kupiec's article in the August issue of Risk – Does CP3 get it right? – raised a number of concerns about the application of Basel II to retail portfolios.
Does CP3 get it right?
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's third consultative paper raises several complex issues, not least of which is: will it work in practice?
Overcoming the hurdle
How should capital be allocated to different business lines in a financial institution? ThomasWilson explores this question from an investor's perspective by constructing a statisticalmodel that measures the risk of individual business types.
Accord preparations: the rest is yet to come
While the debates have raged for months about many aspects of the proposed Basel II Accord, on some points there has been relative silence, in particular with regard to the seeming overreliance on statistical techniques.
Overcoming the hurdle
How should capital be allocated to different business lines in a financial institution? Thomas Wilson explores this question from an investor’s perspective by constructing a statistical model that measures the risk of individual business types. The…
QIS3 results released by Basel Committee
A paper outlining the results of the third quantitative impact study (QIS3) was released by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision yesterday.
Taking it slow
Hong Kong's banks are, for the most part, targeting the standardised approach outlined in the new Basel capital Accord, but it is hoped that this will act as a catalyst for the further improvements in risk management.
Sponsor's article > No cure through the cycle
Some have argued that the antidote for pro-cyclicality in the Basel II capital requirements is the use of 'through-the-cycle' estimates of default and recovery rates. David Rowe argues that, whilethis might mitigate the pro-cyclical impact of the Accord,…
Niche lenders brace for Basel
Banks with niche lending businesses are scrambling to assemble enough data to allow them to benefit from Basel II's most advantageous capital provisions. Gallagher Polyn reports on one successful initiative.
Op risk modelling for extremes
Part 2: Statistical methods In this second of two articles, Rodney Coleman, of Imperial College London, continues his demonstration of the uncertainty in measuring operational risk from small samples of loss data.
Data hurdles
The risk management rumour mill has been buzzing in recent weeks with the story that US banking regulators have told the senior management of the country’s 30 largest banks that they will be expected to implement the advanced internal ratings-based (IRB)…
Sponsor's article > Basel II and pro-cyclicality
The main argument for making regulatory capital requirements more risk-sensitive is to improve allocational efficiency. But this may lead to intensified business cycles if regulators fail to take measures to prevent such an impact.