Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Revision of the Standardised Approach for Credit Risk -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 General aspects -- 1.3 Use of external ratings -- 1.4 Credit risk mitigation techniques -- 1.5 Conclusions -- Recommended Literature -- Notes -- 2 The...

Each of the most recent accords of the Basel Committee on Banking Regulation, known as Basel II, 2.5, and II, has embraced a different primary measure of market risk in global banking regulation: traditional value-at-risk (VaR), stressed VaR, and expected shortfall. After introducing the...

For almost a decade, the IMF has been using stress tests to identify vulnerabilities across institutions that could undermine the stability of a country's financial system. This working paper focuses on the IMF's experience with stress testing in the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)....