Lending corruption is an important agency problem for banks. Using data from the World Bank Business Environmental Survey, we find that in countries with more lending corruption, banks give more favorable loan terms to borrowers. This relation is stronger when firms are under more financing...

This paper examines consistency in the estimates of probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) that nine large U.S. banks assign to syndicated loans for regulatory capital purposes. Using internal bank data on loans that had PDs and LGDs assigned by more than one bank, we find...

Under IFRS 9, the PD component of the ECL calculation has to be Point-in-Time, and the PiT PD can be considered to be a two-factor process, idiosyncratic and systematic factors, where the systematic factors are specific to the economy. The systematic factors can be observed in corporate default...