FRTB
WHAT IS THIS? The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is a set of market risk capital rules designed to replace a series of patches introduced after the financial crisis. It seeks to better-capture tail risk, to redraw the boundary between banking and trading books, and to raise the bar for internal models.
Final FRTB internal model rules get mixed reviews
Bankers divided on whether changes to two key tests will ease ‘penal’ capital charges
Standardised approaches lose out in FRTB update
Ratio of standardised approach to IMA capital estimated to increase
Credit risk quants are hitting the tech gap
An appetite to cut the costs of IRB is constrained by tougher regulatory scrutiny
EU lawmakers delay FRTB capital charges
Leaked paper potentially pushes market risk capital charges beyond Basel’s 2022 deadline
FRTB spurs data mining push at StanChart
Bank building “single golden source” of trade data in a bid to lower NMRF burden
Wells Fargo opts for FRTB’s standardised approach
Risk USA: Complexity of internal models drives big bank to an approach designed for smaller ones
BlackRock, risk models and regulatory relief
The week on Risk.net, October 20–26, 2018
New NMRF rules will push more desks to standardised approach
Restrictions on use of proxy data will bar banks from using internal models, conference hears
Keeping up with cloud adoption
Risk.net convened a webinar in collaboration with Murex to explore how, as more financial institutions move to the cloud, they can get the most out of their technology investments
FRTB could ‘kill’ local markets – South African banks
Dealers urge South African Reserve Bank to depart from Basel standards on NMRFs
Compliance preparations amid uncertain rules
A forum of industry leaders discusses how banks will define individual trading desks under FRTB, whether BCBS 239 compliance projects can help banks meet FRTB risk data challenges, which model validation obstacles banks still face and other key topics
Embracing the sea change to come with FRTB
Firms have until 2021 to implement FRTB, and those yet to begin compliance efforts risk putting themselves at a disadvantage. EY‘s financial services risk partners Shaun Abueita and Sonja Koerner explore the current level of readiness within the industry…
Market risk capital requirements will soar come 2022
FRTB implies 54% capital uplift for G-Sibs
Podcast: Montoro on FRTB thresholds and non-modellable risks
Senior risk manager also argues Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is better than Chi-squared
The revised P&L attribution test and the suitability of new proposed thresholds
Montoro, Spinaci and Georgi assess the effectiveness of the FRTB’s P&L attribution test
Risk.net podcast: DTCC’s Lind on FRTB, data pooling and NMRFs
As many as 70 banks globally could adopt internal model approach for market risk capital
US banks curb market risk
G-Sibs cut $31 billion of market RWAs in three months to June
Libor reform threatens risk modelling under FRTB
Dearth of liquid products and historic data threatens banks with capital hit under new market risk rules
Quants tout improved expected shortfall backtest
Measure aims to provide better gauge of VAR violations
Mifid II, RFQs and the future of Europe’s G-Sibs
The week on Risk.net, August 11-17, 2018
Why the FRTB remains critical
Critics of the Basel Committee’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book are wrong, write John Beckwith and Sanjay Sharma