The 2008 crisis made clear that credit rating agencies (CRAs) can contribute to systemic financial risk. Surprisingly, post-crisis reforms have hardly addressed the underlying problems, including rating agencies' methodologies, their ratings' homogeneity, and widespread market reliance on these...

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...

Advances in risk management capabilities should make it profitable for major banks to rely on internal credit ratings to calculate Basel II capital requirements (IRB approach). Firms and, more generally, market participants would benefit from the disclosure of these ratings. Banks, however, have...

This paper deals with the proposed use of sovereign credit ratings in the Basel Accord on Capital Adequacy (Basel II) and considers its potential effect on emerging markets financing. It investigates in a first attempt the consequences of the planned revisions on the two central aspects of...