Financial institutions are faced with the challenge to forecast future credit portfolio losses.It is common practice to focus on portfolio models consisting of a limited set of parameters,such as the probability of default, asset correlation, loss given default or exposure at default.A simple...

A major topic in retail lending is the measurement of the inherent portfolio credit risk. Two importantparameters are default probabilities (PDs) and correlations. Both are considered in theNew Basel Accord. Due to limited empirical evidence on their magnitude, in particular for retailcredit...

Small and medium-sized enterprises are a centrepiece of Europe's economy. Due to their limited size and their generally lower creditworthiness, their access to financial market instruments is more limited than for large enterprises, which benefit from more elaborate Treasury operations,...

Trennschärfere Kreditentscheidungsverfahren (Credit Scoring) sind ein Wettbewerbsvorteil für Banken. Sie erlauben es ihnen, profitablere Kundensegmente bei der Kreditvergabe zu identifizieren. Sollte die im Firmenkundenbereich übliche subjektive Einschätzung des Kreditnehmers durch den...

The assessment of strategic opportunities and threats has been a key element of corporate ratings to assess companiesfor their current and in particular future creditworthiness since the enforcement of the new capital regulations for issuingloans in Europe (Basel II). The existing, often...