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Overview of Basel 2 risks: credit, market, and operational risk, focusing on credit risk quantification and capital requirements.

## Key Takeaways

- Basel 2 enhances risk sensitivity by differentiating risk weights based on credit ratings.
- Credit risk quantification requires detailed modeling of default probabilities, losses, exposures, and maturities.
- Market risk capital requirements cover a broad range of financial instruments in both trading and banking books.
- Operational risk is recognized as a key risk category but requires further detailed study.
- Strong model governance and regulatory oversight are essential for internal ratings-based approaches.

## What the video covers

- Basel 2 covers three main risks: credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.
- Credit risk includes transaction risk (customer rating, issuer, issue) and portfolio concentration risk (sector, geography, product exposures).
- Market risk applies to trading and banking portfolios, including equities, bonds, interest rates, currencies, commodities, and derivatives.
- Operational risk is acknowledged and will be detailed in a separate video.
- Credit risk capital requirements under Basel 2 use standardized and internal ratings-based approaches.
- Standardized approach assigns risk weights based on external credit ratings, unlike Basel 1.
- Internal ratings-based approach (foundation and advanced) involves estimating probability of default, loss given default, exposure at default, and loan maturity.
- Advanced approach allows banks to estimate both probability of default and loss given default internally, while foundation approach uses regulator-supplied loss given default.
- Model governance and validation are critical responsibilities of banks and regulators.
- Disclosure requirements include capital quality, credit risk portfolio, high-risk exposures, and NPA movements.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction to Risks Covered by Basel 2
2. 01:44 Credit Risk: Transaction and Portfolio Concentration Risk
3. 02:29 Market Risk: Trading and Banking Portfolios
4. 03:54 Operational Risk Overview
5. 05:20 Standardized Approach and Risk Weights
6. 07:07 Internal Ratings-Based Approach Components
7. 08:24 Loss Given Default and Exposure at Default
8. 09:32 Maturity and Advanced Internal Ratings-Based Approach
9. 11:04 Model Governance and Validation
10. 12:36 Summary and Regulatory Responsibilities

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## Questions about this video

What are the three main types of risks covered under Basel 2?

Basel 2 covers credit risk, market risk, and operational risk as the three primary risk categories.

How does the standardized approach under Basel 2 differ from Basel 1 in credit risk?

The standardized approach in Basel 2 assigns risk weights based on external credit ratings, unlike Basel 1 which used uniform risk weights for corporate customers.

What are the four key components banks must estimate under the internal ratings-based approach?

Banks must estimate probability of default, loss given default, exposure at default, and loan maturity under the internal ratings-based approach.

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So what are the various risks Basel 2 is covering? I said it is credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.

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Let us see how much detail the credit risk is being covered. Credit risk is covered in terms of the transaction risk or portfolio risk and portfolio risk. When it comes to transaction risk, it is the customer rating

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and it is the issuer, it is the issue. All three aspects are being covered. That means if the transaction is with a counterparty, the transaction is relating to a particular loan facility, and the transaction is belonging to a

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particular issuer. So these three aspects are being covered under the transaction risk. And further, in the case of the portfolio risk, how much of the portfolio is concentrated to a particular set of customers or group of customers or

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borrowers or credit exposures and how the risk is going to be added because of that. Because, for example, exposure to a particular sector or exposure to a particular geographical region or exposure to a particular product.

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So the portfolio concentration risk is also being addressed by Basel when it comes to the credit risk part of it.

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When it comes to market risk, we have discussed already in the market risk class.

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Market risk can be relating to equities. It may be related to interest rates, bonds.

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It may be relating to the interest rate. When we are talking about interest rate risk, it may be relating to bonds which are in the trading category.

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Bonds which are not in the trading category, which may be in the banking category.

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So Basel 2 talks about bonds which are in the trading category. Further, the trading category is categorized as specific risk and general market risk. This I have talked about while discussing the market risk, and at the same time they are also

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talking about banking portfolio. Banking portfolio means we have estimated duration approach. We followed also maturity gap pricing approach or rate sensitivity approach.

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So this is relating to interest rate instruments. It can be currency instruments, it can be commodity instruments, it can be derivative instruments.

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So the market risk is being covered for various types of financial instruments both in trading category as well as in the banking category, especially in the banking category, which means those which are not meant for the trading purpose.

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For example, government securities. The bank may be investing in government securities with a long-term interest to protect the bank's solvency. Those securities are not being considered for the trading purpose. So these are called held-to-maturity securities, and that is banking portfolio. But for

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banking portfolio also, capital requirements are to be estimated. Finally, there is operational risk. So the operational risk is also being covered. We will discuss in a separate video about the various components of operational risk and a brief on

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methods for computation of operational risk. When it comes to credit risk, the standardized approach, which talks about the external ratings, banks are expected to estimate the capital requirements on the basis of the risk weights to be assigned on the basis of

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the external ratings. So AAA-rated borrowers will have some external ratings, and AAA-rated borrowers will have a risk weight, and similarly other categories of the borrowers will also have different risk weights. Normally, the risk weights are suggested by the regulator

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for various credit ratings. So those are to be applied in estimating the capital requirements.

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So the standardized approach is modified over Basel 1. In Basel 1, risk weights for corporate customers are the same across all credit rating categories.

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Whereas here it is different. So credit rating is the discriminating factor in deciding the risk weights. When it comes to internal ratings-based approach foundation level, there are four components. Number one is probability of default.

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Probability of default can be estimated for each borrower either on the basis of the internal rating models or by application of various vendor-based models.

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That means the standardized credit risk quantification literature has been productized or commercialized into different vendor models, and these vendor models are helpful in assessing the probability of default of borrowers, or banks can estimate the probability of

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default on the basis of internal ratings model. I have discussed this estimation of probability of default in the credit risk two video, and you may please refer to those things or remember those concepts while we are progressing on

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this capital requirements. The second important component is loss given default. If a borrower defaults, how much loss is the bank likely to incur? That means the bank will recover some money out of the collaterals or guarantees, or maybe some money must have

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been paid by the borrower already. So the rest of the money which the bank is not likely to recover is called loss given default.

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So we can say loss given default is 1 minus recovery rate. If recovery rate is 60%, loss given default is 40%.

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If recovery rate is 80%, loss given default would be 20%, and if the recovery rate is nothing, the entire amount is to be considered. 100% of the amount will be considered as loss given default. The third thing is exposure at

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default. Exposure at default means at the time of the default, how much amount of the loan is outstanding that should be adjusted for various types of high-quality collaterals.

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Suppose if the borrower has given good margin money, then it should be deducted and the rest of the money will only be considered as exposure at default. So exposure at default means exactly the money which is outstanding after adjusting to high-quality collaterals.

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And the one more component is maturity of the loan. What is the residual maturity of the loan?

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Short-term loans are likely to have low capital requirements or low estimated losses, unexpected losses.

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Whereas long-term loans are going to have a higher amount of the unexpected losses because the loan maturities are for a long-term period.

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In that case, the maturity of the loan is also to be considered. So if a bank which is adopting internal ratings-based approach has to develop these four components either by following the internal rating models or by adopting any of the vendor

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based models. So vendor-based models will give more and more statistical properties for a particular rating, and based upon that, the probability of default is being generated.

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So these are the aspects relating to credit risk. Of course, when it comes to internal rating-based model final or advanced approach, in the advanced approach, the only difference is both probability of default and loss given

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default will be estimated by the bank's models only, whereas in the foundation approach, loss given default is being given by the regulator.

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So the regulator, on the basis of the particular country's recovery loss, recovery processes, and the experience of various banks, they may decide the recovery rate, and the same recovery rate may be supplied to all banks, and banks are required to

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adopt or apply plug-in figure of that recovery rate and calculate loss given default. Whereas in the advanced approach of internal ratings-based model, banks have freedom to decide both probability of default as well as loss given default. Either by following the

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internal ratings models or by following vendor-based models or a combination of both, banks can decide what the capital requirements are. Of course, it is the responsibility of the bank to validate the capital requirements are not falling below the regulatory

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requirements, and even the regulator may also validate the models. So model governance is very much important when a particular internal rating model is being used or loss given default model is being used. So the responsibility of model validation, model governance lies on the bank

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itself. So the credit risk quantification or estimating the

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it all depends upon the regulators. The regulators in some countries are following only standardized approach and in some countries for some set of banks regulators have allowed internal ratings based approaches also. So it depends upon the comfort or it depends upon the

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systems, processes, data and knowledge levels of the banks. In application of these models, final call will be taken by the regulator whether a standardized approach is suitable for a bank or internal ratings based approach is suitable for a bank. So the risk

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components are to be estimated. Now once the risk components are estimated how do we get risk weight?

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That is the fundamental question. That means uh in Basel one risk weight is directly given. In Basel 2 standardized approach risk weight is assigned on the basis of the external credit rating. In Basel 2 internal ratings based approach we have the

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information of probability of default. Our bank is expected to have the information of probability of default and loss event default.

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These figures are to be plugged into these equations. I'm sure it may be confusing for you to see this very mathematical equations but uh there is no need to get confused here. It is very simple. Fundamentally the bank is arriving the correlation

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factor which is again on the basis of probability of default and last given default and then maturity adjustment is also arrived on the basis of the probability of default and then capital requirement is directly estimated on the basis of these three

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components and finally risk weight is coming on the basis of the capital requirement. ments.

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So the risk weights are capital requirements multiplied by 12.5. 12.5 means assuming that the capital requirements are 8%age of the capital adequacy.

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1 upon 8%age comes to 12.5 that is where we are taking the reciprocal of the capital adequacy and multiplying with the loan exposure amount.

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we are getting the risk weight uh for each type of the loan exposure. So this is what Basel 2 talks about for credit risk.

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Now what part is to be remembered? We need to remember that Basel 2 is asking for probability of default and loss given default. In case of foundation approach, probability of default is to be estimated by the bank. Last given

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default is given by the regulator. In case of advanced approach, both probability of default PD and loss given default LGD is being uh estimated by banks models.

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If the banks are unable to apply the internal rating models or if they are not having a adequate systems for internal rating models even they can use the vendor based models. The vendor based models can be a multivariate

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technique analysis or it can be a metron option pricing approach or it may be a risk migration approach, rating migration approach or it is a combination of all these things.

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So couple of vendor based models are available and any textbook on credit risk is covering this different type of vendor based models.

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So I'm not discussing the details of Indar rate based models here. I'm only saying that the risk weights are to be estimated for credit risk by following this uh basel approach. So Basel 2 gives an equation and these inputs are to be

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plugged into this equation that is where risk weights are arriving for each type of the credit risk exposure.

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When it comes to market risk, we have already discussed in the market risk video that market risk is applicable to all types of the securities in trading portfolio.

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The Basel 2 talks about two types two components of market risk. One is specific risk. The other one is general market risk. We can say that specific risk is because of the credit risk of the issuer of the security. For example,

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government securities or government bonds do not have any specific risk. Their credit rating is wellrated one. So their specific risk is considered as zero. Whereas corporate bonds are having some credit specific risk. So specific risk is some portion of the credit risk.

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That means the volatility in the bond prices depends upon underlying credit worthiness. For bond market as underlying creditworthiness for all government securities are same just the price volatility is adequate enough to capture the market risk. Whereas for corporate

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bonds the underlying credit rating is different for each type of the bond exposure or bond issue.

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That's why the price volatility is not only price variations. It is also reflecting the underlying creditworthiness.

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For example, a triple A rated bond volatility can be different from tripleB rated bond volatility.

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So price volatility we are talking about. uh so that's where specific risk is being considered in estimation of market risk and then uh general market risk is price volatility.

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So the basel 2 talks about standardized methods maturity method that means all securities are to be categorized on the basis of their repricing periods which we have discussed in the interest rate risk video and duration method we have

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discussed in the market risk video. So on the basis of the duration method banks may estimate the market risk or on the basis of maturity method bank may estimate the market risk. Currently many banks are following or many regulators

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have insisted on duration method. In India duration method is being followed for estimating the market risk capital requirements under Basel 2.

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Further value at risk models can also be applied. We have discussed value at risk models also while discussing the market risk. So market risk video gives the details about value at risk models and banks may adopt duration method and are

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valuate risk methods. Of course it depends upon what the regulator is suggesting and uh what type of the standard deviations are being suggested by the regulator to apply the value at risk models and the level of significance also being suggested by the

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regulators. That's where uh market risk is being estimated for capital requirements for market risk is being estimated under the basel approach. The third is operational risk. Operational risk fundamentally here also a standardized approach is there that is basic

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indicator approach. Basic indicator approach means uh on the basis of the income of the bank a portion of a percentage of the income being considered for operational risk losses.

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It's like calculating the provisions but it will go in estimation of the capital requirements. It is like a top-down approach. Otherwise banks have freedom to do follow the internal methods.

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Internal methods means uh on the basis of business units identifying the risk events and estimated loss that means bank has to estimate the frequency of the events and severity in such case of that if and severity if the event happens severity

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means the loss. So statistical modelings are evolved, statistical proper models are evolved to estimate the operational risk classes. A few things I will be discussing in operational risk video that you may look into that one.

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Now the second important aspect of Basel 2 is a supervisory review process. So banks should uh have processes for assessing their overall capital adequacy requirements and supervisor have to satisfy to that extent.

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So supervisor is continuously reviewing the bank's capital requirements, the models being applied by the bank and the estimated capital requirements and seeing that the quality of the capital instruments being maintained by the bank is adequate enough to meet the

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unexpected losses for the bank arising out of these three types of the risks. So supervisor has a lot of responsibility. Supervisor means the regulator has a lot of responsibility in under the basel and basel fix the responsibility on the part of the

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supervisor also to see that models being uh applied and used by the bank are sufficient enough robust enough to give the capital requirements for the bank.

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So couple of guidelines have been evolved. The supervisory review process means what the banks are expected to follow these things and uh these are the guidelines for supervisory review process. The third important thing is market discipline. Market discipline

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means disclosures. Banks are required to disclose the certain information under Basel 2 and this helps the banks banks shareholders and other stakeholders to know the quality of the capital level to know the risk management processes and to know the

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serious exposures of the bank. So under the market discipline a set of disclosures are being indicated.

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Disclosure talks about quality of capital. Disclosure talks about estimated capital requirements and by following methods. Disclosure talks about uh what is the credit risk portfolio of the bank? What are the high-risk exposures or top 25 exposures and what is the moment of NPA

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and uh this is the and of course the market risk part as well as the liquidity risk and other parts also being uh disclosed under this market discipline. You are advised to see the given link of HDFC Bank

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Basel 3 Basel 2 pillar disclosures. Basel 2 pillar three disclosures. You can type pillar three disclosures on Google and uh look for any banks disclosures. That's where you get more in detailed understanding about what type of the disclosures are being made

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by the bank and how the market discipline is being uh uh emphasized by the Basel 2 for uh under the Basel 2 approach.

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Topics: Basel 2 credit risk market risk operational risk capital requirements internal ratings-based approach standardized approach probability of default loss given default risk weights


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