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Basel's operational risk capital revisions welcomed

Advisors welcome the Basel Committee’s long-awaited proposals for a new standardised approach for calculating operational risk capital, which axes the flawed gross income indicator and puts the focus on bank size

The Bank for International Settlements, Basel
BIS building in Basel
Photo: Ulrich Roth

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is to dump three of the four op risk capital calculation methods in favour of a new unitary standardised approach.

The existing methods – the standardised approach (TSA), the basic indicator approach (BIA) and its variant the alternative standardised approach (ASA) – have frequently come under fire for failing to reflect the accurate operational risk

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