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CRE31 IRB approach: risk weight functions (paras. 31.1-31.45) (effective as of 1 January 2023)

This chapter sets out the calculation of risk-weighted assets for (1) corporate, sovereign and bank exposures; (2) retail exposures; and (3) equity exposures.

Version effective as of 01 Jan 2023

Changes due to December 2017 Basel III publication and the revised implementation date announced on 27 March 2020.

Introduction

31.1 This chapter presents the calculation of risk weighted assets under the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach for: (i) corporate, sovereign and bank exposures; and (ii) retail exposures. Risk weighted assets are designed to address unexpected losses from exposures. The method of calculating expected losses, and for determining the difference between that measure and provisions, is described CRE35.

Explanation of the risk-weight functions

31.2 Regarding the risk-weight functions for deriving risk weighted assets set out in this chapter:

(1) Probability of default (PD) and loss-given-default (LGD) are measured as decimals

(2) Exposure at default (EAD) is measured as currency (eg euros), except where explicitly noted otherwise

(3) ln denotes the natural logarithm

(4) N(x) denotes the cumulative distribution function for a standard normal random variable (ie the probability that a normal random variable with mean zero and variance of one is less than or equal to x). The normal cumulative distribution function is, for example, available in Excel as the function NORMSDIST.