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.
How banks should organise themselves for FRTB
New market risk rules require a rethink on trading and ops, argue market risk experts
Podcast: Fries on Monte Carlo, Greeks and the future of AAD
Research on AAD is not complete until it becomes easier to implement, says quant
Regional banks cheer tweaks to FRTB standardised approach
Planned softening of SBA makes it more appealing, but most banks still expect to adopt IMA
How not to control trading behaviour
Quants show popular risk measures fail to limit risk-seeking behaviour among traders
FRTB: ECB postpones model approval deadline
Postponement follows Basel’s decision to revise key elements of new market risk framework
Crédit Agricole hires Varloot from Natixis for risk role
Varloot joins as CIB head of market and counterparty risk
Basel to scrap automatic fails for P&L test
“Amber zone” will protect near-miss desks, but regulators not convinced by NMRF complaints
Model risk in the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book: the case of the Default Risk Charge
This paper assesses the model risk associated with the copula choice for the calculation of the Default Risk Charge (DRC) measure.
Global fragmentation looms in FRTB data pooling stand-off
Smaller banks unwilling to hand over localised trade information to data utilities
European FRTB capital charges hang by a thread
EU Council mulls introducing only reporting requirements in CRR II, or a very low scalar
Validation of profit and loss attribution models for equity derivatives
The aim of this paper is to validate profit and loss attribution generated by daily movements of option prices as seen through their Black–Scholes (Black and Scholes 1973) and Merton (1973) implied volatilities.
Banks make new push on FRTB’s P&L test
Industry calls for series of changes as regulators prepare new consultation, says Nomura’s Epperlein
Canada’s banks go it alone with FRTB data utility
Local lenders reject advances of major data utilities to build own solution
FRTB: banks grapple with hard-to-model risks
Swiss, UK bank efforts to comply with regulators’ risks-not-in-VAR rules may be undone by transition to FRTB
FRTB: Delivering on the promise of data-driven insights
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CVA dismay: final Basel rules disappoint dealers
Minor tweaks don’t make up for removal of internal modelling, say banks
The profit-and-loss attribution test
In this paper, the authors analyze the failure probabilities of the profit-and-loss attribution (PLA) test as defined in the final market risk standard published in January 2016 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Review of 2017: All sorts of volatility, bar one
Markets were oddly calm this year, while everything else was in motion
Basel delay does not ensure global FRTB consistency
A European Parliament draft would let supervisors decide response to P&L attribution test fails
HKMA offers fast-track model vetting in swaps hub pitch
Streamlined process could take just six months, says official
The FRTB’s P&L attribution-based eligibility test: an alternative proposal
Spinaci, Benigno, Fraquelli and Montoro propose two alternatives to the P&L attribution test
Murex moves flagship trading and risk system on to cloud
Vendor expects more demand from squeezed banks; move also hints at modular future for risk systems
Basel rules risk fragmentation after key compromise
Basel Committee ready to release new accord but patchy adoption of internal model floor and FRTB expected
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