What does IRB stand for?

Internal Ratings Based (banking; risk management)

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Business, finance, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

For project finance loans, banks using the Advanced Internal Ratings Based Approach and having sufficient data to validate could now simply use weightings that apply to corporate borrowing.

What you should know about Basel 2

Despite concerns about the cost and complexity of the proposed Accord, more than half of the wholesale banks and more than a third of the retail banks have chosen to use the Advanced Internal Ratings Based [IRB] approach during implementation.

Banks see positive side to Basel II

As has been discussed in previous issues of the Alert, the ANPR reiterates that the Agencies intend to implement only the Advanced Internal Ratings Based Approach ("A-IRB Approach") for credit risk, and a coordinate Advanced Measurement Approach ("AMA Approach") for operational risk (collectively, the "Advanced Approach").

Banking Agencies Issue Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for US ...

Basel II itself provides for three levels of capital frameworks, the Standardized Approach, the Foundation Internal Ratings Based Approach and the Advanced Internal Ratings Based Approach (the "A-IRB Approach"), with the Standardized representing the simplest risk capital calculation approach and the A -IRB being the most complex.

SEC Issues Order Implementing Expanded Categories of Permissible ...

In conjecturing that the application of the new internal ratings based approach will require qualifying banks to extend the determination of capital cover of credit risk to market and operational risk as well such that potential insolvency can be averted with certain confidence over a specific investment horizon.

Endnotes

These public proxies serve as a point of departure for performing capital allocation, risk management and credit analysis tasks, such as generating internal probability of default ratings for the Advanced Internal Ratings Based approach of Basel II.

IRA Releases New Report: Basel II by the Numbers 2005 Adds Shopping ...

com/bancware), will help Bank of America achieve compliance with the Internal Ratings Based approach of the Basel II Accord from the Bank of International Settlements.

Bank of America Selects SunGard's BancWare for Basel II Compliance ...

NEW YORK & LONDON -- Fitch Ratings will host a teleconference Thursday to discuss and analyze the new Basel II capital framework, focusing in particular on the internal ratings based (or IRB) approach to credit risk.

Fitch Teleconf: Basel II, Thursday, Sept. 30 10 a.m. ET-3 p.m. BST