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Credit technology hogged the spotlight in 2002, as the spectacular collapse of a host of corporate giants combined with movement on the Basel II Accord focused everyone's attention on this class of exposures.
Niche lenders brace for Basel
Banks with niche lending businesses are scrambling to assemble enough data to allow them to benefit from Basel II's most advantageous capital provisions. Gallagher Polyn reports on one successful initiative.
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David Rowe surveys recent research on the role of correlation between probability of default and recovery rates, as well as among default probabilities.
Measuring the operational risk of fund valuation companies
How can we model the losses due to operational risk in asset management? The loss process approach provides an answer specifically suited to this question for the fund valuation business and is in line with the work in progress of the Basel Committee on…
FDIC plans series of Basel papers
The US-based Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has announced plans to issue a series of papers over the coming months that will analyse the impact that the revisions to the Basel II Accord will have on the US banking system.
UK banking bodies expect further revisions to Basel II op risk plans
British banking industry bodies said in December they continue to expect that the operational risk aspects of the proposed Basel II bank safety accord will be revised in the light of banking industry experience.
Malcolm Knight named BIS chief
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has appointed Malcolm Knight as general manager of the Basel-based institution. He replaces Andrew Crockett, who is set to depart in March.
Canada's shifting credit scene
Canadian banks' attitude towards loan portfolio management is changing, and the impending Basel II Accord is accelerating the evolution of internal practices.
ABA sets up new op risk committee
The American Bankers Association (ABA) has created a new operating risk committee to help bankers reduce losses and comply with new capital requirements laid out in Basel II, the new regulatory capital accord being devised by the Basel Committee on…
ABA sets up new op risk committee
The American Bankers Association (ABA) has created a new operating risk committee to help bankers reduce losses and comply with new capital requirements laid out in Basel II, the new regulatory capital accord being devised by the Basel Committee on…
Canada’s shifting credit scene
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Basel Committee expects to make announcement on QIS 3 findings in first quarter of 2003
BASEL - The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision expects to make a preliminary announcement on the findings of the QIS 3 survey of banks late in the first quarter of 2003, a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) spokesperson said at the end of…
Measuring the operational risk of fund valuation companies
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