Advanced Internal Ratings-Based Approach (A-IRB)
Saudi bank merger lowers RBS’s credit RWAs
Standardised credit RWAs fall 23% quarter-on-quarter
FRTB internal models in fight for survival
Basel III capital floor leaves banks struggling to justify own-models approach, say risk experts
IRB approaches cover two-thirds of European bank credit risk
Share of risk-weighted assets calculated using internal models between 41% and 91% at the G-Sibs
SME loans more capital intensive for big eurozone banks
Corporate loans to smaller enterprises attract high risk weightings
Model changes, asset growth boost Canada bank RWAs
TD Bank brings credit card portfolio under A-IRB
Now under aegis of ECB, Nordea RWAs spike 29%
Imposition of Swedish mortgage floor adds €10.6 billion of risk-weighted assets alone
EU, Canada banks lag rivals on IRB model coverage
Median bank has 78% of credit risk-weighted assets under IRB approaches
Tools to blunt credit risk popular at EU banks. But why?
Just 1% to 5% of exposures covered by credit risk mitigants
BNPP leads big EU banks in growing IRB exposures
French bank adds €25 billion of modelled exposures in third quarter
European credit model outputs vary wildly
Risk densities range widely and out-of-sync with average probabilities of default
Model changes threaten 30% rise in Nordea's RWAs
Imposition of new risk weight floors will harm bank's capital ratio
Corporate loan RWAs doubled by standardised approach
RWA densities for corporate loans under standardised approach stand at 94%, for A-IRB just 43%
Big UK banks have £278 billion exposure to ‘junk’ loans
Non-investment grade exposures make up 31% of total corporate exposures
TD Bank expands credit risk model
Retail A-IRB assets grow 12% quarter to quarter
'Big Four' Aussie banks grow credit risk
Firms have grown modelled RWAs by 31% and cut standardised RWAs by 56% in five years
Counterparty risk builds at Bank of America, JP Morgan
Higher portion of RWAs attributable to more risky derivatives and repo counterparties
European banks blitz non-modelled credit risks
Across 14 G-Sibs, IRB assets fell 10% over three years, while standardised assets dropped 20%
Model revamp hikes UBS credit RWAs
Calculation tweaks made to scrap higher regulatory RWA multipliers
UBS faces capital hike from credit model curbs
Bank estimates Sfr35 billion jump in RWAs from Basel III, with credit modelling one driver, says CRO Bluhm
Take-up of credit modelling varies at European banks
Percentage of credit RWAs calculated using IRB approaches ranges from 42% to 91% across large dealers
New capital floor saves CIBC C$244 million
Switch to Basel II-based floor adds 16 basis points to bank's CET1 ratio
Underperforming performance measures? A review of measures for loss given default models
This paper reviews the ways of measuring the performance of LGD models that have been previously used in the literature and also suggests some new measures.