Stress-testing
Stress testing under IFRS 9: a field guide
Higher volatility of loan loss provisioning will complicate financial planning and hit capital
Why investors need multiple betas
Segmented upside and downside betas can be used for better risk management
Bank risk manager of the year: SG CIB
Risk Awards 2017: Bespoke stress tests helped navigate Brexit and autocallable pressure
Point-in-time probability of default term structure models for multiperiod scenario loss projection
The author of this paper proposes a dynamic PD term structure model for multi-period stress testing and expected credit loss estimation.
Exclude internal stress tests from CCAR, says US auditor
GAO says internal tests weaken incentives for banks to create 'meaningful and severe stress tests'
Eiopa stress test highlights UK reliance on matching adjustment
Tests reveal how unwelcome any watering down of key measure would be
Europe’s banks fret over US stress tests
CCAR could expose weaknesses in capital planning at foreign banks
UK banks under pressure to use IFRS 9 in stress test
Banks unable to calculate impairments under extreme scenarios must answer to regulator
RBS must raise £2bn after failing stress tests
Lender releases new capital plan after worst performance in BoE test
Banks and CCPs clash over non-default losses
Banks balk at being on the hook for losses from investments or cyber attack, but many clearers say the risk should be shared
CCP default risks not correlated, CFTC finds
Timothy Massad: stress tests reveal “quite a bit of diversification” in CCP exposures
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Benchmarking the loss given default parameter for mortgage loan portfolios under stress
The authors analyze the impact of a decline in property prices that leads to stressed recovery rates for collateral on the loss given default (LGD) parameter in portfolios of mortgage loan.
Big losses force banks to rethink energy lending
Unfunded loans and exposures to suppliers worry credit risk managers
Pension funds cautioned on equity-bond correlation
Buy-siders need to plug changes into VAR, say risk managers
Buy-side stress tests ‘not straightforward’ – Irish central banker
Stress tests for asset managers need to be different from those for banks, conference told
Liquidity stress testing ‘essential’, says ECB supervisor
Supervisor warns conference banks will need to shape up their Ilaap responses for 2017
EBA stress test shines light on interest income hedging dilemma
Non-maturing liabilities pose problems for banks' IRRBB hedge accounting
Mind the Gaap: US banks brace for $50–100bn capital hit
New loan loss accounting regime could shrink US banks' Common Equity Tier 1 ratios by 25–50bp
Rating-transition-probability models and Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress testing: methodologies and implementation
This paper introduces a risk component called the credit index, that represents the systematic risk part of a portfolio by a list of macroeconomic variables.
Capital hawks advocate bail-in flexibility for Italy
As stress-test results loom, experts say tackling legacy loans should take priority over bail-in purity
Credit veteran rewrites the alphabet of risk modelling
Scott Aguais helps banks go from point-in-time to through-the-cycle, and back again
EBA stress test ‘obsolete’ after Brexit vote
Experts call for a rethink on setting scenarios for future tests