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CBU director of policy to quit FSA
Sheila Nicoll to leave in April when the FSA transitions to the FCA
The transparency tide
The issue of counterparty risk and how best to convey it to retail investors dominated the agenda at the Structured Products Europe conference. Delegates explored ways of identifying and mitigating risk, while the rise in structured funds and regulation…
Operational risk versus credit risk: Similarities and differences
Many attempts have been made to adapt credit risk models to quantify operational risk. In this article, Gerrit Jan van den Brink of Dresdner Bank and KPMG's Thomas Kaiser compare op risk and specific credit risk models in terms of input data, methodology…
A better approach to operational risk aggregation
Professor Carol Alexander proposes an aggregation methodology that takes account of dependencies between op risk losses that have some common risk drivers.
Small firms welcome EU proposals
BRUSSELS - European investment firms welcomed the European Commission's decision to create a special regime for them in terms of the operational risk provisions of proposed new capital adequacy rules, according to trade bodies representing the firms.
The Basle II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
This summary has been updated to include the revisions to the Basle II op risk proposals contained in the Working Paper on the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk issued in September, 2001 and available on the Bank for International Settlements’…
Basel II - Rules and Models
The proposed operational risk charge remains one of the most contentious areas of the new Basel Accord. Carol Alexander reviews the current proposals in the context of various simple models, and argues that practical implementation will require the use…
The Basel II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
This summary has been updated to include the revisions to the Basel II op risk proposals contained in the Working Paper on the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk issued in September, 2001 and available on the Bank for International Settlements'…
Accounting for error
A new discussion paper on operational risk has been published, but with many banks in Asia still struggling with non-performing loans, some bankers question the ability of troubled banks to cope with this charge. AsiaRisk investigates.
Advanced measurement approaches
The September working paper on operational risk from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision confirmed that global banking regulators are looking at a range of advanced ways of calculating op risk capital charges instead of a single method.
Operational risk: the last frontier
This month sees the publication of a position paper on operational risk by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Mark Lawrence, ANZ Bank’s chief risk officer and an expert on Basel’s controversial proposals for a charge on op risk, tells us what to…
Basel survey signals focus of discussion paper
The focus of the operational risk discussion document planned by global banking regulators is signalled in a survey seeking information on banks’ losses from such hazards as fraud, computer system failure and trade settlement errors.
EU anticipates critics in its Op Risk charge proposals
While debates still rumble on over the new Basel capital accord, the European Union Commission's capital adequacy rules are prompting another set of arguments.
Five reasons why regulators should approve the loss-distribution approach
The Basel Committee shied away from the most risk-sensitive way of calculating an op risk charge, says Michael Haubenstock. He argues for a green light.