This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. After a short overview about financial regulation in Germany in general, the paper focuses on the most important development in the area of capital adequacy regulation from the 1930s up to the financial crisis. Two main trends are...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to credit risk -- Credit rating models -- Approaches for measuring probability of default (PD) -- Exposure at default (EAD) and loss given default (LGD) -- Validation and stress testing of credit risk models -- Portfolio assessment of...

On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...