In the last two decades, both internal and external risk management of banks has undergone significant developments. Substantial investments into data collection have been made and this data is used for estimating internal credit risk models. The resulting risk parameters are required for...

In the last two decades, both internal and external risk management of banks have undergone significant developments. Banking supervision encourages banks to use a risk-based approach for computing minimum regulatory capital. Accounting rules have been tightened requiring more timely loss...