From Basel II to Basel III: Implications in Risk Management and Capital Allocation

Introduction to the Basel II Reform
  • Overview and objectives
  • The three pillars of the reform
  • Impact of the reform on capital markets
Capital Allocation - Economic Approach
  • Credit risk
  • Defining and measuring exposure
  • Quantifying credit risk: approach via ratings, approach via structural models (KMV), approach via credit spreads, CREDITMETRICS™, CREDITRISK+™
  • Market risks
  • Defining and measuring exposure
  • Quantifying market risk (Value at Risk)
  • Practical workshop
  • Case study
Capital Allocation - Regulatory Approach (Basel II)
  • Approaches used for credit risk
  • Analysis of standard methods
  • Detailed presentation of both internal approaches: IRB foundation and IRB advanced
  • Practical implementation of Basel II
  • Implementing an internal ratings system
  • Defining default, calculating the PD, LGD and EAD
  • Adjusting maturity, risk-reduction factors, taking correlation into account
  • Practical application to various types of portfolio
  • Operational risk
  • Definition
  • Quantifying operational risk via a straightforward approach
  • Using internal methods to quantify operational risk
Differences Between Economic and Regulatory Approaches
  • Contrasting the effect of the two approaches on credit risk
  • Using models in management
  • At transaction level (quantifying individual risk, putting an internal price on the cost of risk to dealers)
  • At portfolio level (optimising portfolios based on the Return/Risk ratio)
Basel III developments
  • Description of the changes to be implemented in Basel III
  • New liquidity standards
  • Improvement of the quality of equity capital eligible to regulatory ratios
  • Reinforcement of equity capital allocated to trading: stressed VaR, introduction of Incremental Risk Capital to capture the risks ignored by market VaR…
  • Improvement of the calculation of counterparty risks in derivatives: EAD calculated with stressed data
  • Capital charge for market risks linked to CVA
  • Other developments

  • Understand every aspect of the Basel II reform
  • Learn methods of quantifying and managing credit risk
  • Master the current approaches to capital allocation (economic and regulatory)
  • Master the different approaches introduced by the Basel II reform
  • Use Basel indicators (PD, EAD, LGD, adjusting maturity, correlation...)
  • Know all the new aspects in Basel III
  • Highly operational approach
  • Essential knowledge for the application of the objectives and methods used by the reform
  • Description of the general background and detailed presentation of credit risk
  • In-depth analysis of the different Basel II approaches: regulatory and economic approach
  • Presentation of the dynamics of the Basel II reform: description of the evolutions presented in the Basel III framework
  • Operational management and risk management positions, particularly credit risk management, credit portfolio management and ALM
  • Sales management and capital markets
  • Departments involved in the setting up of Basel II reforms: IT, accounting, etc.
  • Consultants working on Basel II/III reform-related issues
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