Internal models approach (IMA)
Fed will start FRTB model approvals for US banks in 2021
Senior official says banks should now be deciding desk structure and readying backtests
Isda study reveals size of Covid’s trading book capital hike
Procyclicality led to aggregate 25% rise in market, CVA risk-weighted assets
Wells Fargo eyes escape from Collins floor
Advanced and standardised RWAs are just 1% apart
By crushing RWAs, Goldman sends its capital ratio soaring in Q3
Risk-weighted assets fall 5% in three months
Revised FRTB deadline poses further challenges for Asia‑Pacific banks
Essan Soobratty, product manager for regulatory data, New York; Eugene Stern, global head of product, market risk, New York; and Vicky Cheng, head of government and regulatory affairs, Asia‑Pacific, Hong Kong, at Bloomberg explore the additional…
Advanced approaches continue to bind Citi in Q2
Modelled RWAs fall slower than standardised over the three months to end-June
US banks face capital hit from resurgent advanced approaches
Banks pushed onto internal models wrestle with procyclical capital charges
Time for the standardised approaches to shine
Banks are playing a canny game of capital optimisation by toggling between internal models and regulator-set approaches
Credit models at odds with standardised approach on Covid
Increase to advanced approaches RWAs far outpaces growth to standardised
FRTB comes too late for Covid crisis
Expected shortfall would stop Basel 2.5 duplicate capital charges, but backtesting still a problem
Citi, Goldman edge above Collins floor
Both banks’ risk-based capital requirements will be set using advanced approach
UK bank market RWAs ebbed in 2019
HSBC shed $5.9 billion of market RWAs in 2019
HSBC leads EU banks on VAR measures
In aggregate, IMA risk exposures focused on traded debt
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
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
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
Chafing under capital rules, JP Morgan sells home loans
Standardised risk weights for residential mortgages far exceed modelled equivalents
Loan appetite pushes credit risk higher at Goldman Sachs
Standardised credit RWAs for loans up 19% since end-2017
Backtesting expected shortfall: a simple recipe?
In this paper, the authors introduce a new ES backtesting framework based on the duality between coherent risk measures and scale-invariant performance measures.
Double trouble: don’t blur FRTB deadlines, warns ECB
Ignoring reporting model deadline could muddy capital approval cut-off
European FRTB proposals spark XVA overload fears
Banks warn of overly complex revaluation process and heightened risk of backtest fails
Industry expects US FRTB proposals by year-end
Fed likely to co-ordinate progress with EU, which may also accelerate its timetable
Levelling the playing field of the FRTB’s forex rules
Hany Farag argues that changing the base currency may address FRTB forex asymmetry