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ICAAP Strategic Risk – Estimating ICAAP Capital reserve for Strategic Risk

4 mins read Why is modeling strategic risk for ICAAP so difficult? Perhaps one reason is that unlike Value at Risk (VaR) or Credit Risk, there is no agreed upon, accepted, unified framework or tool to measure, report or track the capital required to recover from a strategic misstep. What further complicates the capital estimation exercise is the fact that strategic initiatives and resulting challenges at each bank are different

ICAAP: Stress Test: Liquidity Risk

2 mins read We cover some of the ways in which liquidity risk may be stress tested under the Internal Capital Adequacy and Assessment Process (ICAAP). These involve simple sensitivity analysis techniques, such as applying liquidity and interest rate shocks to the assets and liabilities of the bank.

ICAAP: Credit Risk: Stress Test: How to Determine Expected Classification Rates

< 1 min read In this post we will consider how to derive expected classification rates for “current” customers of a loan portfolio. This is used to calculate the expected “current” customers who will be classified within the next period, which will in turn be used in the quantification process of credit risk under the Internal Capital Adequacy and Assessment Process (ICAAP).