Rethinking Operational Risk Capital Requirements

Peter Sands, Gordon Liao and Yueran Ma

Working Paper from Harvard University OpenScholar

Abstract: Operational risk capital requirements represent a relative backwater of the Basel capital framework for banks. We examine both the existing Basel II framework and the latest Basel Committee proposals for reform and conclude that neither are effective in creating the incentives and loss absorbency to minimize negative externalities from operational risk events. We suggest an alternative approach that we believe would be much more effective in achieving the regulatory objectives. We do not offer a view on the amount of capital required, focusing instead on the methodology and structure of the capital requirement.

Date: 2017-01
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