In its October 2013's consultative paper for a revised market risk framework (FRTB), and subsequent versions published thereafter, the Basel Committee suggests that non-securitization credit positions in the trading book be subject to a separate Default Risk Charge (DRC, formally Incremental...

Regulatory capital requirements for market risk, also known as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), were disclosed by the Basel Committee on January 2016. This major overhaul of the Basel 2.5 framework challenges risk model specification and backtesting. Given the prevalence of...