Credit risk modelling
EU, Canada banks lag rivals on IRB model coverage
Median bank has 78% of credit risk-weighted assets under IRB approaches
Model risk chiefs warn on machine learning bias
ML model outputs open to “potential bias sitting in your datasets”, says RBS model risk head
UBS warns of $6.5bn jump in credit RWAs in Q1
Credit and counterparty RWAs stood at $147.9 billion at end-2018, up $1.6 billion from the third quarter
Counterparty trading limits revisited: from PFE to PFL
The potential future loss is proposed as a replacement for PFE
Tools to blunt credit risk popular at EU banks. But why?
Just 1% to 5% of exposures covered by credit risk mitigants
Credit risk quants are hitting the tech gap
An appetite to cut the costs of IRB is constrained by tougher regulatory scrutiny
Pooled resources offer way to keep credit models afloat
Supervisors drive banks to seek more corporate default data and cost-effective model improvements
Citizens: tearing up the rule book
Super-regional’s CRO streamlines RBS-era lending rules to speed up credit approvals
Fed could soften CECL impact on stress tests, banks say
Risk USA: Firms may be allowed to spread impact of projected losses across CCAR cycle
Not so DFAST: slim Mizuho avoids stress
Mizuho Americas has remained lean to head off CCAR, and, post-Crapo, it’s clear of DFAST, too
National supervisors put pressure on global risk models
Varied supervisory and external audit demands stretch cross-border risk management
Finally, a professional group for model-risk managers
As models of all stripes crowd into finance, the people who screen them form an association
Big UK banks have £278 billion exposure to ‘junk’ loans
Non-investment grade exposures make up 31% of total corporate exposures
Credit data: doom loop depends on sovereign strength
Analysis of 59 countries shows bank and sovereign credit are most likely to be correlated in lower-rated countries
Improved credit loss estimates proposed for IFRS 9
New smoothing technique claims to overcome flaws in risk rating scales
SunTrust’s ‘swim lanes’ keep exposures in line
Bank has five bands of risk – a granular approach it says makes it easier to control exposures
EU banks slash default risk estimates for corporates by 30%
Probabilities of default fall on average across 39 countries
European banks blitz non-modelled credit risks
Across 14 G-Sibs, IRB assets fell 10% over three years, while standardised assets dropped 20%
RBC builds loan-loss buffer
Provisions for credit losses rise to C$346 million from C$274 million the prior quarter
New credit risk modelling approach touted to reduce CCAR bias
Academic aims to address gaps in existing LGD forecast method with two-equation fix
Model revamp hikes UBS credit RWAs
Calculation tweaks made to scrap higher regulatory RWA multipliers
Banks ask Fed to delay CECL impact on stress testing
Fed asked not to implement CECL into CCAR until 2021
UBS faces capital hike from credit model curbs
Bank estimates Sfr35 billion jump in RWAs from Basel III, with credit modelling one driver, says CRO Bluhm