Risk's CreditRisk Summit 2005: Bottom-of-the-cycle LGD criticised

Speaking yesterday at Risk 's CreditRisk Summit USA, Bogie Ozdemir, a New York-based senior director in the risk solutions group at Standard and Poor’s, argued that Basel II’s suggested approach to defining loss-given-default (LGD) can lead to an overly conservative capital requirement.

According to Ozdemir, mean LGD would increase by 37% under the Pillar 1 approach of Basel II. The proposed bottom-of-the cycle definition of LGD was devised to compensate for the fact that the correlation between LGD and probability of default is not explicitly accounted for in the regulation.

With this bottom-of-the-cycle definition, LGD reflects the amount of regulatory capital needed during the worst-case scenario of an economic downturn.

“The bottom-of-the-cycle LGD approach significantly

Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.

To access these options, along with all other subscription benefits, please contact info@risk.net or view our subscription options here: http://subscriptions.risk.net/subscribe

You are currently unable to copy this content. Please contact info@risk.net to find out more.

Sorry, our subscription options are not loading right now

Please try again later. Get in touch with our customer services team if this issue persists.

New to Risk.net? View our subscription options

Register

Want to know what’s included in our free membership? Click here

This address will be used to create your account

You need to sign in to use this feature. If you don’t have a Risk.net account, please register for a trial.

Sign in
You are currently on corporate access.

To use this feature you will need an individual account. If you have one already please sign in.

Sign in.

Alternatively you can request an individual account here