In March 2007 the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) asked that the Joint Forum consider the extent to which its March 2005 report Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) required updating as a result of the continued growth and rapid innovation in the CRT markets. The market turmoil since the summer of 2007...

The Basel Committee proposes to supplement the current value-at-risk (VaR) regulatory capital framework for trading exposures with an incremental risk capital charge (IRC). Since the financial market crisis that began in mid-2007, a number of major banking organisations have experienced large...