Credit Loss in Translation: Informing Bank Provisions and Capital Buffer Requirements with Forward-Looking Credit Loss Distributions

Marco Gross and Laurent Millischer

No 2025/228, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: We develop a model framework that can be used to derive the forward-looking credit loss distributions for banks' credit exposures, to use it for (1) assessing the adequacy of provisions at the bank-portfolio level; (2) macro stress testing; and (3) informing the sufficiency of capital requirements, both from a micro- and macro-prudential perspective. The model is semi-structural and simulation-based, entailing a large number of simulated macro-financial scenarios instead of employing handpicked scenarios and ad-hoc scenario weights. The way the model-based credit loss distributions are generated can be made compatible with IFRS 9 or any other accounting regime. The model codes are made available online along with this paper.

Keywords: Credit loss modeling; provisioning; micro-prudential policy; macroprudential policy; credit loss; loss distribution; IMF working papers; bank-portfolio level; countercyclical capital buffer; Credit; Loans; Countercyclical capital buffers; Collateral; Commercial banks; Mortgages; North America; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58
Date: 2025-11-07
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