Comprehensive Risk Measure Floor

This paper based on case studies with five universal banks from europe and north america aims to investigate which types of comprehensive risk measure crm models are being used in the industry the challenges being faced in implementation and how they are being currently rectified.

Comprehensive risk measure floor.

Mpt is a standard. Rwa at end of reporting period column comprehensive risk measure. Risk measures are statistical measures that are historical predictors of investment risk and volatility and they are also major components in modern portfolio theory mpt. The director in charge of comprehensive risk management review the policy and specific measures for developing and establishing an adequate comprehensive risk management system with a full understanding of the scope types and nature of risks and the risk identification assessment.

An additional response to the crisis is the introduction of a stressed value at risk requirement. Undoubtedly crm remains the most challenging and ambiguous measure applied to the correlation trading book. For regulatory reporting purposes the comprehensive risk measure represents the higher of the internal model spot value at the reporting dates their preceding 12 week average calculation and the floor where the floor is equal to 8 of the equivalent capital charge under the standardized approach securitization framework. Both are value at risk type measures projecting losses over a one year capital horizon at a 99 9 confidence level and are.

Derived risk weighted assets corresponding to the capital requirements as used for computing the comprehensive risk capital charge as well as any additional capital charge on the supervisor s decision x 12 5. These measures will reduce the incentive for regulatory arbitrage between the banking and trading books. The crm floor of 8 per cent of the capital charge for specific risk according to the standardised measurement method bcbs 2011 is the.