Internal models approach (IMA)
Can bankers stop the trading book killer?
FRTB won’t obliterate your whole markets business any more, just some very specific parts
Fund-linked structured products face extinction under FRTB
Global market risk capital standards carry sky-high charges for fund derivatives
Banks rethink fund-linked trades ahead of FRTB
Some stop offering longer-dated structured products ahead of expected 2023 rules in EU
FRTB: Singapore’s banks eye internal models for forex desks
New market risk regime dangles capital savings for own-models approach
Revised Basel output floor to bind 41% of European banks
Cap on modelled capital will also constrain 6% of Americas banks and 34% of banks from the rest of the world
UK banks find various ways to de-risk
Risk-weighted assets fall despite loan growth at four of big five lenders
FRTB 2.0: lower capital but high running costs
Revisions to market risk rules fail to ease complexities of internal models approach
FRTB is here – now it’s up to local regulators
Each jurisdiction must produce its own version of FRTB; until then, banks are hanging back
Banks hope final FRTB rules will ease NMRF burden
Internal models approach buoyed by more liberal rules on price observations and risk factor aggregation
VAR model under scrutiny as RBS’s breaches spike
Excessive backtesting exceptions lead to increase in capital multiplier
EU, Canada banks lag rivals on IRB model coverage
Median bank has 78% of credit risk-weighted assets under IRB approaches
One-quarter of market risk not modellable
US banks have largest portion of capital requirement set by the SA
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
Citi’s standardised and modelled RWAs drift apart
SA risk-weighted assets $38 billion higher than modelled equivalents
Regulators demand action on rogue market risk models
Thirteen banks out of 49 face remedial action
EU lawmakers delay FRTB capital charges
Leaked paper potentially pushes market risk capital charges beyond Basel’s 2022 deadline
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
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
Morgan Stanley RWAs drop as loans fall and VAR dips
Standardised RWAs fall 4% to $370 billion
Standardised market RWAs on the rise at EU banks
Standardised approach-generated RWAs increase €4.7 billion across 12 banks
Modelled market risk falls for UK banks as standardised risk rises
Barclays had the lowest percentage of market RWAs calculated under IMA, at 49.6%, and Lloyds Banking Group the highest, at 86.1%
A third of eurozone banks fall short on IRB model standards
Twenty-one of 65 ECB-surveyed banks' internal model practices non-compliant with EU rules