Advanced internal ratings-based approach (A-IRB)
Data not judgement required for Nordic banks' Basel approach
Nordic banks want to use the Basel framework’s advanced approach to credit risk capital, but local regulators are insistent that data – rather than judgement – has to be the basis for the calculations. Banks don’t have enough instances of default in…
Sponsor's article > SunGard to rise again
SunGard, the 900-pound gorilla of the financial sector software market, has been strangely absent from the operational risk software arena so far, according to both financial and technology industry executives. Now, however, that looks set to possibly…
Sponsor's article > Portman Building Society Selects SunGard's Basel II Capital Manager
SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, an operating group of SunGard (NYSE:SDS), has announced that UK-based Portman Building Society has chosen SunGard's Basel II Capital Manager to help it to comply with the new Basel II regulations and to achieve best…
Quantifying operational risk
This is the fifth of Charles Smithson's latest series of Class Notes, which will run in alternate issues of Risk through to the end of 2004. Class Notes is an educational series, designed to pull together the threads of recent developments and thinking…
Sponsor's article > Basel II: change is good
Basel II is an opportunity for banks to modernize and upgrade their risk practices, policies and technology to manage risk in a holistic fashion. Alliance & Leicester, a UK based financial institution with assets of over €55 billion, took early advantage…
Basel II Alert - Highlight of Critical Changes
It has been more than six years in the making, but the final text of the Basel II framework has arrived. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the text at the end of June to a mix response from the financial services industry.
Calming supervisory fears
The region's banks have identified the supervisory review process as the main cause for concern when it comes to Basel II. Low Kwok Mun of the Monetary Authority of Singapore talks about the Singaporean regulator’s approach to implementing Basel II.
IIF comments on recent Basel announcement
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), a global association of financial institutions, issued a statement yesterday welcoming the proposals that the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the day before, but also noted that more work…
UK banks can save money by delaying Basel II implementation, says Cass research
Delaying compliance with the New Basel Accord would save UK banks substantial amounts of money, according to research by Cass Business School of London.
IIF makes further demands of Basel Committee
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), a Washington, DC-based trade association of more than 350 banks, has sent a letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision asking for further concessions in the final Basel II document.
Mind the gap
UK mortgage lenders are grappling with Basel II. But there are still concerns about a credit risk management gap between the large and small lenders.
The A-IRB approach must be changed, says FDIC study
Risk-based capital requirements for banks under Basel II would fall below the levels needed for current prompt corrective action (PCA) purposes, according to a new study by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
A-IRB is overly prescriptive, say US banks
Several US banks would like to see a full internal models-based approach to regulatory capital. According to their response to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the implementation of the new Basel Capital Accord, the banks said the…
CP3 comments: Any last words?
The comments elicited by the Basel Committee's third consultative paper (CP3) show just how little consensus exists between regulators and banks on the Basel II capital Accord. Dwight Cass highlights some of the telling comments.
FSA official slams UK banks' preparedness for Basel II
UK banks are further behind in their preparations for Basel II than the UK's Financial Services Authority expected them to be, said Ian Tower, head of the risk review department of the prudential standards division of the regulator at a London conference…
Bank West aims for advanced IRB
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has stated that it expects its four largest banks – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank and Westpac – to adopt the most advanced approaches to measuring credit and operational…
Regulator outlines AMA issues for US banks
In a late-July speech at a Risk Waters Group forum on the US's advance notice of proposed rulemaking, the Federal Reserve's Kirk Odegard described how the US would be implementing the advanced measurement approach for op risk, and outlined regulators'…
US regulators issue their advance notice of proposed rulemaking
US regulators published the much-awaited advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) late on Friday afternoon, after a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
Banks not ready for advanced IRB, says Trema speaker
Many international investment banks are not yet ready to implement the advanced internal-ratings-based approach to measuring credit risk, according to a controversial speaker at this week's Trema World Forum in Monaco.
UBS: QIS3 results in increased capital, is not "fair"
UBS, the Switzerland-based financial institution, says its overall capital will increase under the Basel Accord revisions, as currently outlined in the third quantitative impact study (QIS3). In addition, other institutions have had the same results, the…
NY Fed’s Rutledge outlines US plans, IRB goals
William Rutledge, executive vice-president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, outlined the next steps US regulators will take to implement the Basel Accords in the US.
Niche lenders brace for Basel
Banks with niche lending businesses are scrambling to assemble enough data to allow them to benefit from Basel II's most advantageous capital provisions. Gallagher Polyn reports on one successful initiative.
Basel II to boost both large and small banks' loan prices
The prices of some loan products for retail and middle-market corporate clients will almost certainly rise when banks implement the Basel II capital Accord in 2006, according to speakers at Risk 's Capital Allocation 2002 USA conference this morning.