Credit risk
Europe’s banks can’t agree on how to fix the output floor
Some want market risk excluded, while others push for greater savings from credit modelling
Qatar National Bank write-offs hit $1.8bn in Q2
Stage 3 clean-up eclipses previous quarterly high set at end-2025
Quantification of margin of conservatism category C: correlations and quantification levels
The author suggests means for margin of conservatism type C quantification of overlapping one-year default rates and approximate the confidence level for MoC C quantification at grade level.
SEB model shifts nearly treble standardised RWAs
Baltic portfolio transfer lifts credit RWAs and shaves 16bp from CET1 ratio
Fourth-trigger CDS market weighs going blind
Dealers see benefit of undisclosed, replenishable pools – but not everyone is convinced
Bank loan credit risk pooling: risk diversification versus the moral hazard problem
This paper offers a credit risk pooling arrangement which negates the moral hazard problem and improves the risk-return profiles of participating banks.
Bowman shuns CECL. Friends say it just needs a little help
How far should FASB go in reforming credit-loss accounting rules?
Floored: Basel III rethink upsets IRB dominance
Introduction of output floor means internal ratings’ popularity takes a hit, but isn’t quite out for the count
AI agents could become credit risk managers… almost
Risk Live: Bankers say credit stress-testing could be automated, but humans remain accountable
Credit data provider of the year: Moody’s
As financial institutions seek faster, more contextualised credit insights, Moody’s has combined proprietary datasets, domain expertise and agentic AI to help clients make more informed risk decisions
Banks demand look-through on private credit lending
Risk Live: Risk managers say they need to see underlying loans before lending to funds
Asian banks may need to step up Hormuz-related credit provisions
Regional banks were slow to respond in the first quarter, but the crisis isn’t going away quickly
BDC bank borrowing capacity rebounds after multi-year slide
The 20 largest BDCs added $11 billion in bank commitments in Q1, despite recent scrutiny
Everything is connected: Santander’s US CRO shuns siloed thinking
Rise of AI intensifies links between fraud, cyber, third-party and other operational risk categories
Huntington CRE book jumps again after Cadence buy
Acquisition lifts property exposure by 60% as delinquencies reach eight-year high
Erba myth: will US banks choose new capital measure?
B3E gives US banks a dilemma – adopt expanded risk-based approach, or a new standardised alternative
How banks are using AI assistants for credit risk model validation
Model validation has become a structural bottleneck for European banks. AI-based assistants can offer a credible response and early production deployments are having an operational impact
Crisis? Which crisis? How ECB stress test failed to see Strait
Banks were told to design geopolitical shock scenarios, but some focused mainly on tariffs
Investigating the relationship between liquidity creation and credit risk, with the moderating role of loan concentration: Islamic versus conventional banks in Pakistan and Malaysia
The authors investigate links between liquidity creation and credit risk in Islamic banks and conventional banks, with loan concentration as a moderating effect.
Private credit disclosures leave more questions than answers
Muddled metrics and scattergun reporting hinder comparison of US lenders
Europe’s next chore: cleaning a floor made messy by the US
Rejection of Basel III’s output floor leaves EU with some difficult decisions to make