Credit risk modelling
Credit risk concentrations vary across big EU banks
The median G-Sib had roughly 60% of its credit portfolio exposed to counterparties outside its domicile
Citi raises CECL reserves estimate
A 30% jump in reserves would translate to a roughly 30bp capital hit
CCAR disclosure sheds new light on modelling default losses
Regulator reveals loss rates for loans and credit cards, but banks say disclosures don’t go far enough
FASB bins regional bank CECL proposal
Plan would have allowed smaller lenders to reduce capital impact of expected losses
Overseas push amps Scotiabank credit risk
Loan-loss provisions for the international unit made up 69% of the bank's total in 2018
Junk loan, souring economy push up RBC loan-loss reserves
Provisions for credit losses hit C$514 million in Q1 2019
UK banks' ECL scenarios vary
Projected economic outcomes most widely dispersed at Barclays
Model woes swell ABN Amro RWAs
Trim and model reviews add €5 billion in risk-weighted assets
Default risks in peripheral eurozone inch up
Italian corporate PD estimates up to 9.12%
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