Economic Capital Allocation - Cost & Benefit with Basel II

Commercial banks and the new regulation: Basel II, Impact Studies, and cost of implementation; Benefits from Basel II: Risk-based pricing and rating targets; Regulatory Capital Defined; Market discipline and its global impact; The allocation of business capital to business units: Economic capital defined; Economic capital and solvency management; Economic capital allocation: practical applications and theoretical background; Evolving rules and procedures for economic capital allocation; Strategies used by banks to increase their capital base; Defaults, internal ratings and technological solutions: Default defined; IRB, technological infrastructure, models and correlations; Internal ratings, supervisory weights and collateral; Software which can help in IRB implementation; How to be in charge of IRB; Regulatory and political issues tend to be indivisable: Supervisory authorities and their regulatory policies; Supervisory authorities and their regulatory policies.

Chorafas, Dimitris N. Since 1961, Dr Dimitris N. Chorafas has advised financial institutions and industrial corporations in strategic planning, risk management, computers and communications systems, and internal controls. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Paris, and the Technical University of Athens, Dr Chorafas has been a Fulbright scholar. Financial institutions which have sought his assistance include the Union Bank of Switzerland, Bank Vontobel, CEDEL, the Bank of Scotland, Credit Agricole, Österreichische Länderbank (Bank Austria), First Austrian Bank, Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank, Mid-Med Bank, Demir Bank, Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura, Istituto Bancario Italiano, Credito Commerciale and Banca Provinciale Lombarda. Among multinational corporations Dr Chorafas has worked as consultant to top management, are: General Electric-Bull, Univac, Honeywell, Digital Equipment Corp, Olivetti, Nestlé, Omega, Italcementi, Italmobiliare, AEG-Telefunken, Olympia, Osram, Antar, Pechiney, the American Management Association and host of other client firms in Europe and the United States. Dr Chorafas has served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as visiting professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Also, the University of Alberta, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, and Technical University of Karlsruhe. More than 6,000 banking, industrial and government executives have participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, other European countries, Asia and Latin America.

...not only provides a good introduction to the regulatory background, but also shows how economic capital and regulatory capital are concepts that should co-exist and gives good explanations to the background of each. One of the Top Ten financial engineering titles published in 2003-2004 - Richard Norgate, Ph.D., Financial Engineering News