Rethink urged over Basel’s counterparty exposure framework

The Bank for International Settlements, Basel — Calls for Basel to make changes to the SA-CCR

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Nazneen Sherif
09 May 2017

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Nearly three years after it was finalised, market participants are calling on regulators to make changes to the Basel Committee’s standardised approach for measuring counterparty credit risk (SA-CCR), over concerns it could lead to a doubling of calculated exposures versus existing methodologies.

Banks argue that, since the framework is currently being considered as an input to a number of other regulatory requirements still under review, including the leverage ratio, it is time to revise the

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