WG IFRS 9 #3/2017: Roadmap 2017

This WG meeting is set up to discuss the proposed key activities in the working group in 2017.  a) a “quantitative study” to support the calibration process (H1/2017) and  b) a “methodogolical survey” on validation and calibration methods (H2/2017), together with the working "Validation"   Contact person:Daniela Thakkar Location:Webex call

WG IFRS 9 #4/2017: ECL for reverse repo / stock borrowing and derivative collateral assets

WG meeting with the following agenda:  a. Treatment of reverse repos / stock borrowing transactions: What is the lifetime of these transactions, what are methods applied to calculate ECL b. Cash collateral assets (mainly initial margin balances for derivatives) – do banks calculate ECL on this, what methods are applied, what is the lifetime of these positions? Contact person:Daniela Thakkar Location:Webex call

WG IFRS 9 #5/2017: Scenario-Design issues for IFRS 9 and CECL

Scott Aguais / Larry Forest / Gaurav Chawla from AAA present: - Scenario design choices - Pro’s and Cons of different approaches - Industry feedback on scenario design - Some quantitative feedback on different scenario building approaches (“Variance Compression Bias”) - Validation of scenarios received from economic departments - How to incorporate economic cycles, mean reversion and starting assumptions Contact person:Daniela Thakkar Location:Webex call

Nordic roundtable March 2017

In an open atmosphere and with a small group of practictioners from the modelling and validation departments, we discussed the various data collections run by GCD at the moment. Member banks used the possibility to share notes and thoughts on benchmarking with peers in the Nordic region. The agenda included: • the new GCD Benchmarking platform (where many Nordics have indicated to participate), • the usage of the GCD Rating and Defaults database for the Nordics region, • the GCD proposal to run a special IFRS 9 quantitative impact study and • other topics relevant for Nordic members. Contact person:Daniela Thakkar Location:Stockholm, Sweden Aganda:https://www.globalcreditdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/agenda_gcd_nordicsroundtable_20170331_v3.pdf