National supervisors put pressure on global risk models

Varied supervisory and external audit demands stretch cross-border risk management

Differing demands from national supervisors are making it harder for banks to develop and manage their risk models centrally, according to model managers at four cross-border banking groups.

Expectations vary in terms of the size of local modelling teams, with some supervisors also insisting on local governance of the models. In response, banks are aspiring to pull off a tricky balancing act: a framework that is coherent enough to function as a global standard, while also keeping each