Black box blues: Fed starts model validation row
Banks are struggling to get more information out of vendors after the Federal Reserve Board warned they would need to properly validate third-party risk models before the next round of regulatory stress tests. Some institutions fear they will miss the deadline. Lukas Becker reports
Models are complex things, but they have recently become the subject of a simple argument. Under pressure from the Federal Reserve Board, US banks are asking model vendors to open up their black boxes – and the vendors, to a greater or lesser extent, are refusing. It's a dispute that, until now, has played out in private, but banks are becoming increasingly frustrated.
The Fed crackdown came as
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