Models get a thrashing

Leading banks, academics and regulators spent two days stress-testing themselves and the latest in credit risk models. David Shirreff reports.

Was it all in vain? More than 200 credit experts and their regulators spent two days deep underground last month thrashing out the virtues and vices of credit risk modelling. At the end of this session, two floors down in The Pit cinema at London’s Barbican Centre, a panel including a trio of European regulators concluded that the models were “half-baked” and could not be used to set regulatory capital.

The financial risk industry is not discouraged.

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