Defaulting on your obligations is a clear event. You did not pay when you should, you did not show up when you promised you would, you did not deliver the assets for which you were paid. In financial contracts the list of clear-cut defaults is often expanded by contractually defined additional ‘events of default’. Such […]
Tag: IRB
Designing an alternative prudential regime for simple banks
There has been a race between banks and regulators to add size and complexity to banking groups on the one hand and to regulations that cover such businesses on the other. It is questionable that smaller and simpler banks and their clients are best served by this development. At the same time, the financial system […]
Lessons from Volkswagen testing software for IRB banks
The VW manipulation of its emissions testing results provides lessons for banks, insurers and their supervisors. Testlab results bear no similarity to real life survival or failure is a simple one. Bad governance structures can lead to bad decisions (as highlighted by John Plender in the FT and supported by a wide range of examples […]