Operational Risk toward Basel III: Best Practices and Issues in Modeling, Management, and Regulation

CHAPTER 1

Modeling Operational Risk Based on Multiple Experts’ Opinions

Jean-Philippe Peters and Georges Hübner

 

 

ABSTRACT

While the Basel II accord has now gone live in most parts of the world, many discrepancies still remain on advanced modeling techniques for operational risk among large international banks. The two major families of models include the loss distribution approaches (LDAs) that focus on observed past internal and external loss events and the scenario-based techniques that use subjective opinions from experts as the starting point to determine the regulatory capital charge to cover operational risk. A major methodological challenge is the combination of both techniques so as to fulfill Basel II requirements. In this chapter we discuss and investigate the use of various alternatives to model expert opinion in a sound statistical way so as to allow for subsequent integration with loss distributions fitted on internal and/or external data. A numerical example supports the analysis and shows that solutions exist to merge information arising from both sources.

Georges Hübner gratefully acknowledges financial support from Deloitte Luxembourg.

1.1 INTRODUCTION

The revised Framework on Capital Measurement and Capital Standards for the banking sector, commonly referred to as Basel II, has now gone live in most parts of the world. Among the major changes introduced in this new regulatory framework are specific capital requirements to cover operational risk, defined ...