Insurance and Operational Risk

John Thirlwell

Contents
1.

Development and Validation of Key Estimates for Capital Models

2.

Explaining the Correlation in Basel II: Derivation and Evaluation

3.

Explaining the Credit Risk Elements in Basel II

4.

Loss Given Default and Recovery Risk: From Basel II Standards to Effective Risk Management Tools

5.

Assessing the Validity of Basel II Models in Measuring Risk of Credit Portfolios

6.

Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk for Trading Products under Basel II

7.

Implementation of an IRB-Compliant Rating System

8.

Stress Tests of Banks’ Regulatory Capital Adequacy: Application to Tier 1 Capital and to Pillar 2 Stress Tests

9.

Advanced Credit Model Performance Testing to Meet Basel Requirements: How Things Have Changed!

10.

Designing and Implementing a Basel II Compliant PIT–TTC Ratings Framework

11.

Basel II in the Light of Moody’s KMV Evidence

12.

Basel II Capital Adequacy Rules for Retail Exposures

13.

IRB-Compliant Models in Retail Banking

14.

Basel II Capital Adequacy Rules for Securitisations

15.

Regulatory Priorities and Expectations in the Implementation of the IRB Approach

16.

Market Discipline and Appropriate Disclosure in Basel II

17.

Validation of Banks’ Internal Rating Systems – A Supervisory Perspective

18.

Rebalancing the Three Pillars of Basel II

19.

Implementing a Basel II Scenario-Based AMA for Operational Risk

20.

Loss Distribution Approach in Practice

21.

An Operational Risk Rating Model Approach to Better Measurement and Management of Operational Risk

22.

Constructing an Operational Event Database

23.

Insurance and Operational Risk

INTRODUCTION

The possibility of allowing insurance as a mitigant to the operational risk charge has been under discussion for some years. It was first highlighted in the Basel Committee’s Consultation Paper of January 2001 (see Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 2001), in which the Committee indicated that they would be working with the banking industry on insurance and other risk-mitigation techniques. The key was to ensure that techniques would result in risk reduction and transfer rather than the exchange of one risk for another. In April 2001, as part of this dialogue, the Operational Risk Research Forum submitted a paper from its Insurance Working Group to the Basel Committee (see Operational Risk Research Forum 2001). A further paper was submitted jointly by the Industry Technical Working Group and Basel Accord Insurance Working Group (see Industry Technical Working Group and Basel Accord Insurance Working Group 2002) in May 2002. At that time and since, members of both the banking and insurance industries made representations to the Basel Committee’s Risk Management Group to explain the rationale for allowing insurance.

The principal arguments in favour highlighted the

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