Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
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In January 2016, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a standards document commonly referred to as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). The changes outlined in this document have a significant impact on banks globally they cover numerous aspects of the trading book, including the definition of the trading book and trading desks, risk measurement and capitalization, and the supervision of internal risk models.
This course explores the new capital calculations, with practical examples of the new standard capital calculations as well as rules and principles behind internal models. The programme develops a set of tools which are applied cumulatively in a sequence of workshops to demonstrate various aspects of these new capital calculations. Concepts are then extended to investigate internal models, expected shortfall and the treatment of credit risk within the FRTB.
Given the wide scope of the FRTB, the course also explores the impact of the new standards on the banking industry. This includes the implications of the new capital regime on various business lines and how banks are likely to divide their businesses into trading desks. Under the FRTB there will be a greater onus on banks to have better risk management and control procedures. Practical guidelines are given for implementing these new procedures and the impact they will have on business strategy and risk management.
This course is also available remotely via LFS Live.
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Traders and Dealing Room Staff
Risk Managers
Middle Office and Senior Managers
Investors
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers and Systems Developers
Structured Products Desks, Product Controllers and Researchers
Loan Portfolio Managers and Fund Managers
Credit Analysts and Credit Risk Managers
Numerate background (intermediate)
A good grounding in capital markets products and techniques
Microsoft Excel
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Subjects
- FRTB
- Internal Models
- Market Risk
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
- Regulation Law
- Risk Measure
- Volatility
- Correlation
- Risk Strategy
- Trading Book
- Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
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Simon Acomb
Teacher
Dr Simon Acomb has over 20 years of experience in quantitative finance. He started his career in finance at Barclays deZoete Wedd in 1992 in the Equities Derivatives Group and progressed to run the quantitative research team. This was followed by five years at Commerzbank, where he established a derivatives proprietary trading team and then became head of the equity quantitative research group. Most recently, Simon has been a managing director at Morgan Stanley as global head of the Equities Analytic Modelling Group.
Course programme
Background, Market Risk, Trading Books and the Standardized ApproachBackground to Risk Management and Regulation
- History of risk management regulation
- Probability distributions, volatility and correlation
- VaR as a failed risk measure
- Motivation for new regulation
Trading Books and Trading Desks
- Defining a trading book and relationship to IFRS 9
- Separation between banking book and trading book
- Trading desk as a unit of regulatory approval
- Defining trading desks
- Impact division into trading desks on capital
Workshop: Allocating positions to trading book / banking book
The Standardized Approach to Market Risk
- Key features of the standardized approach
- Defining risk factors and sensitivities
- Treatment of linear risk and curvature risk
- Impact of the new standardized approach
- Residual Risk Add-ons
Workshop: Example of the new standardized approach - delta and curvature risk
Reviewing the approach to CVA Capital Charges
- Review of CVA calculations
- Holding capital against changes in CVA
- Introducing the two method for calculating CVA capital charge
- FRTB - CVA the standardized approach
- CVA, Debt value adjustment (DVA) and Funding value adjustment (FVA)
Workshop: Simulating the credit exposure of a portfolio of options
Day Two
Internal Models, Introduction of the Default Risk Charge and Capital ImpactExpected Shortfall and the Internal Model Approach
- Changes to the regulations on Internal Models
- Coherent risk measures
- Expected shortfall (ES) as an alternative risk measure
- Comparison of ES and VaR
- Partial ES
- Regulatory stress tests and asset quality reviews
Model Approval, P&L Attribution and Non-modellable Risk
- Model validation standards
- P&L attribution
- Backtesting of internal models
- FRTB definition of non-modellable risk
- Calculating capital for non-modellable risk
- Identifying trades to reduce ES
- Allocating risk and capital to individual trading desks
Default Risk Charge
- Scope of the default risk charge (DRC)
- Standardized approach to the default risk charge
- Applying the concept of jump to default
- Netting and default risk calculations
- Internal model approaches to default risk charge
- Implementing an internal model
Workshop: Example of calculating the DRC
Changes To Risk Management Frameworks
- Linking capital to risk
- Implementation challenges of the FRTB
- Changes to future risk management practices
- Issues not addressed by FRTB
- Products and businesses impacted by FRTB
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book