The risk breaker

To claw its way back from its problem-loan nadir in the late 1990s, Bank of America embraced risk-adjusted return metrics and credit risk distribution techniques. Amy Brinkley is overseeing its turnaround.

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Bank of America’s 1998 merger with NationsBank resulted in a financial colossus with massive, often overlapping lines of credit to US corporations. Soon after the $62 billion merger, some of the the combined entity’s corporate credit exposures became a threat. Defaults caused the bank’s nonperforming loans to spike, and its share price dived – sliding from a high of $78 in June 1998 to a low of $36 in the last quarter of 2000.

The bank’s revival (its share price is now back over $62) came

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Credit risk & modelling – Special report 2021

This Risk special report provides an insight on the challenges facing banks in measuring and mitigating credit risk in the current environment, and the strategies they are deploying to adapt to a more stringent regulatory approach.

The wild world of credit models

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced a kind of schizophrenia in loan-loss models. When the pandemic hit, banks overprovisioned for credit losses on the assumption that the economy would head south. But when government stimulus packages put wads of cash in…

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