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Financial Risk and Regulation (FRR) Series Questions and Answers

Question 101

A bank has a Var estimate of $100 million. It is considering a new transaction which has a correlation of 0.35 with the current portfolio and a standalone VaR estimate of $5 million. What would be the new VaR for the bank if it carried out the transaction?

Options:

A.

$105 million

B.

$101.86 million

C.

$100.22 million

D.

$ 213.67 million

Question 102

The operational risk policy should include:

I. The firm's definition of risk

II. The governance of operational risk including who owns it, what it owns, and how issues should be escalated

III. The main activities and elements that are managed by the operational risk function

Options:

A.

I, II

B.

I, III

C.

II, III

D.

I, II, III

Question 103

For non-retail exposures, which one of the following factors must be determined by a bank when using the Foundation Internal Ratings-Based Approach?

Options:

A.

EAD (Exposure at Default)

B.

LGD (Loss Given Default)

C.

PD (Probability of Default)

D.

M (Maturity)

Question 104

Why is economic capital across market, credit and operational risks simply added up to arrive at an estimate of aggregate economic capital in practice?

Options:

A.

Market, credit and operational risks are perfectly correlated which justifies adding up their associated economic capital.

B.

In practice, it is very difficult to estimate the correlations between the risk categories and as a result a conservative estimate is obtained by adding up the risks.

C.

Regulators require banks to add up economic capital across market, credit and operational risks.

D.

Since market, credit and operational risks are significantly different measures of risk, there is no diversification benefit to computing economic capital to banks across types of risks.

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