Advanced internal ratings-based approach (A-IRB)
FSA forces UK banks to assume higher sovereign losses
Behind-the-scenes clampdown sets loss-given-default floor at 45% – and could make UK bonds less attractive
Risk 25: Banks prepare for a low-RWA future
Weight loss: preparing for a low-RWA future
Writing love letters to models
Love letters to models
Swedish banks braced for home loan capital hike
A weighty issue
Basel III takes a bite out of aircraft and shipping finance
On the scrapheap
Bank capital
In depth: bank capital introduction
Credible capital: regulators prepare to tackle RWA divergence
Credible capital
RWA probe could cut modelling flexibility, says new Basel chief
A stricter approach to the modelling of bank capital is "high likely", as a result of concerns that risk-weighted asset numbers are too divergent
Concern over accuracy of RWAs grows
A weight on their minds
Merkel's EU bailout plan threatens Basel’s sovereign zero risk weights
Discussions are already under way behind closed doors, knock-on effects for bank capital could be substantial
Chinese banks’ AMA op risk projects on hold
AMA projects on hold as Chinese banks get to grips with credit risk portion of Basel II
Data not judgement required for Nordic banks' Basel approach
Nordic banks want to use the Basel framework’s advanced approach to credit risk capital, but local regulators are insistent that data – rather than judgement – has to be the basis for the calculations. Banks don’t have enough instances of default in…
Sponsor's article > SunGard to rise again
SunGard, the 900-pound gorilla of the financial sector software market, has been strangely absent from the operational risk software arena so far, according to both financial and technology industry executives. Now, however, that looks set to possibly…
Sponsor's article > Portman Building Society Selects SunGard's Basel II Capital Manager
SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, an operating group of SunGard (NYSE:SDS), has announced that UK-based Portman Building Society has chosen SunGard's Basel II Capital Manager to help it to comply with the new Basel II regulations and to achieve best…
Quantifying operational risk
This is the fifth of Charles Smithson's latest series of Class Notes, which will run in alternate issues of Risk through to the end of 2004. Class Notes is an educational series, designed to pull together the threads of recent developments and thinking…
Sponsor's article > Basel II: change is good
Basel II is an opportunity for banks to modernize and upgrade their risk practices, policies and technology to manage risk in a holistic fashion. Alliance & Leicester, a UK based financial institution with assets of over €55 billion, took early advantage…
Basel II Alert - Highlight of Critical Changes
It has been more than six years in the making, but the final text of the Basel II framework has arrived. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the text at the end of June to a mix response from the financial services industry.
Calming supervisory fears
The region's banks have identified the supervisory review process as the main cause for concern when it comes to Basel II. Low Kwok Mun of the Monetary Authority of Singapore talks about the Singaporean regulator’s approach to implementing Basel II.
IIF comments on recent Basel announcement
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), a global association of financial institutions, issued a statement yesterday welcoming the proposals that the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the day before, but also noted that more work…
UK banks can save money by delaying Basel II implementation, says Cass research
Delaying compliance with the New Basel Accord would save UK banks substantial amounts of money, according to research by Cass Business School of London.