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TECHNICAL
REQUIREMENTS
FOR BASEL II
COMPLIANCE
Produced by Financial Insight
INTRODUCTION
Regulators around the world require the financial institutions
management practices into synch. The BIS has not yet finalised
has raged for at least the last 30 years. Since 1988, the capital
purposes.
data and calculated figures and put them in the form required
body that set the original 8 per cent) finally got around to
risk systems that do manage market risk have the requisite data
9. Disclosure
Source: Bank for International Settlements
This is the first time that the BIS has explicitly included in its
areas, however, we expect that even the very largest will need to
individual credit;
transaction information;
default probability estimation to take available credit
information and create default probability by credit grade;
loss and exposure data to estimate future losses by credit
grade; and
capital allocation calculator to convert ratings and exposure
information into capital charges.
credit risk, however, firms are likely to rely much more heavily
on outside sources of data, and this will weigh heavily on firms
that find this data difficult to come by. Data volumes are also
likely to be a challenge. Four major technology components are
needed to support the BIS recommendations:
loss history data collection;
key risk indicator data collection, tracking and storage;
loss severity and frequency estimation tools; and
capital charge calculators.
Needed Enhancements
technology architecture.
Timing
The deadline for compliance has been set for year-end 2006.
The BIS has already delayed this deadline, and the potential for
While the basic indicator approach does not imply much in the
agreed upon (let alone published). Once the BIS publishes its
21/2 years (between mid 2004 and year-end 2006) sounds like
theyre wrong.
For the institutions that have already made this effort, the
biggest job is likely to be standardising data collection and KRIs.
Most of the worlds very largest financial institutions have made
build and validate all of the systems, that leaves barely enough
WHAT TO WATCH
Find Data
Define Arch.
Build Regulatory
Reporting
Validate
Build db
Back-testing
Integrate with
Business Process
2003
2004
2005
2006
going and firms realise that they do not have the data required
reporting systems.
institution will need more than one solution to get all of the
components covered.
PARTING THOUGHTS
Before closing this article, we couldnt help but add a few last
upload tools. The more this part of the process is automated, the
the impact of BIS II. First of all, we have no doubt that BIS II is
too few business people across the industry. It is time the rest of
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