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.
FRTB implementation – Covid-19 and Libor pressure
Industry leaders discuss the pressures FRTB is placing on banks’ data infrastructure and systems, how FRTB may constrain banks’ ability to manage future volatility, and the potential complications to implementation caused by such factors as the Covid‑19…
Regulators and banks clash on FRTB capital impact study
Basel and EBA call out two banks for using “overly conservative” survey assumptions
EBA relaxes modellability hurdles for market risk capital
Flexibility granted for assessing NMRFs on options, but constraints remain on committed quotes
FRTB comes too late for Covid crisis
Expected shortfall would stop Basel 2.5 duplicate capital charges, but backtesting still a problem
Eurozone banks fear market risk capital hike due to Covid-19
Hopes that ECB will fix double-counting as VAR breaches rise on market volatility
EU banks seek FRTB delay, citing ‘strain’ of virus
Firms want leeway to fight market mayhem, minus burden of new reporting rules
Top 10 op risks 2020: talent risk
Firms struggle to reduce headcount and fill gaps without cutting corners
An internal default risk model: simulation of default times and recovery rates within the new Fundamental Review of the Trading Book framework
This paper presents a new default risk model for market risk that is consistent with these requirements. The recovery rates follow a waterfall model that is based on a minimum entropy principle.
BofA nabs top market risk quant from Deutsche
Move for senior risk analytics exec comes as go-live for FRTB approaches
Outsourced model validation: is it viable?
Consortium promises cost savings in outsourcing model validation, but some say pooling doesn’t float
EU banks pare back commodities risk
Risk-weighted assets for commodities trading positions under standardised approach fall almost 30%
Degree of influence: Regulatory policies drive quantitative research
Counterparty risk and market risk hold centre stage, data science moves up, quantum computing debuts
New CVA regime to hike affected RWAs fivefold at EU banks
Systemically important lenders face 622% increase in CVA RWAs; but effect could be less if existing exemptions are carried over
FRTB to double market RWAs of EU banks
Risk-weighted assets across 44 banks to increase 105% on average
Final Volcker rule spurs rethink on FRTB trading desks
Regulators encourage structural alignment between the two rules, but hurdles remain
Smaller Japan banks set to adopt CVA accounting
IFRS convergence levels playing field as regional banks start to price in credit risk
The Fundamentals of market risk rules
With the 2022 Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) deadline looming, banks are fast coming to grips with the amount of work still to be done to achieve a successful implementation
G-Sibs eye simpler market risk calculations in Hong Kong
HKMA may need to ease rules on NMRFs to incentivise use of internal models
FRTB costs force banks to weigh IMA desk by desk
Risk USA: Some desks “may not be able to pass these more rigorous standards”, says Morgan Stanley FRTB lead
Stress-testing: still worth the stress?
There may be more efficient ways to assess if banks are misjudging their risks
VAR breaches push NatWest Markets’ RWAs higher
Turbulence in rates behind higher market risk charges
Double trouble: don’t blur FRTB deadlines, warns ECB
Ignoring reporting model deadline could muddy capital approval cut-off