Comprehensive Risk Measure Floor

Undoubtedly crm remains the most challenging and ambiguous measure applied to the correlation trading book.

Comprehensive risk measure floor. This paper presents a modelling framework for the incremental risk charge irc and comprehensive risk measure crm as the new capital requirements for market risks in a bank s trading book basel 2 5. Mpt is a standard. 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. 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. These measures will reduce the incentive for regulatory arbitrage between the banking and trading books. Rwa at end of reporting period column comprehensive risk measure. One of the main elements of basel 2 5 refers to the comprehensive risk measure employment for correlation trading positions which assesses default and migration risk of the underlying exposures.

Both are value at risk type measures projecting losses over a one year capital horizon at a 99 9 confidence level and are. The crm floor of 8 per cent of the capital charge for specific risk according to the standardised measurement method bcbs 2011 is the. 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.