Credit Risk. KMV-Approach

By Robert Schott

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Lehrstuhl f?r Statistik und ?konometrie), course: Financial Markets, language: English, abstract: On January 1st 2007 the European directives (2006/48/EG) and (2006/49/EG) concerning minimum capital requirements, which are equivalent to the new Capital Accords elaborated from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), were put into German national legislation. The basic aim of the Basel Accords is to gear banks' capital requirements more closely than in the past to the actual economic risk, which should improve security and soundness of the financial system. Thus an accord becomes operative, which had its beginning in the year 1988 with the publication of the Basel Accord (Basel I). The BCBS is retaining key elements of the capital adequacy framework (1988), but the revised framework gives greater consideration of assessments of risk provided by banks' internal systems as input to capital calculations. [...]

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3656741948
• ISBN13: 9783656741947
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"