SR Letter 11-7
Attachment
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
April 4, 2011
SUPERVISORY GUIDANCE ON
MODEL RISK MANAGEMENT
CONTENTS
I.
Introduction, page II. Purpose and
Scope,
page
III. Overview of Model Risk
Management,
page
IV. Model Development, Implementation, and
Use,
page
V. Model
Validation,
page
VI. Governance, Policies, and
Controls,
page
VII.
Conclusion, page 1
2
3
5
9
16
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I. INTRODUCTION
Banks rely heavily on quantitative analysis and models in most aspects of financial decision making.[Fo tn1oe They routinely use models for a broad range of activities, including underwriting credits; valuing exposures, instruments, and positions; measuring risk; managing and
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For example, steps taken to apply this guidance at a community bank using relatively few models of only moderate complexity might be significantly less involved than those at a larger bank where use of models is more extensive or complex.[PageBreak]
- For instance, the OCC provided guidance on model risk, focusing on model validation, in OCC 2000-16
(May 30, 2000), other bulletins, and certain subject matter booklets of the Comptroller's Handbook. The
Federal Reserve issued SR Letter 09-01, "Application of the Market Risk Rule in Bank Holding Companies and State Member Banks," which highlights various concepts pertinent to model risk management, including standards for validation and review, model validation documentation, and back-testing. The
Federal Reserve's Trading and Capital-Markets Activities Manual also discusses validation and model risk management. In addition, the advanced-approaches risk-based capital rules (12 CFR 3, Appendix C; 12
CFR 208, Appendix F; and 12 CFR 225, Appendix G) contain explicit validation requirements for subject banking organizations.EndofFootnote2.]
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III. OVERVIEW OF MODEL RISK MANAGEMENT
For the purposes of this document, the term model refers to a quantitative method, system, or approach that applies statistical, economic, financial, or mathematical theories, techniques, and assumptions to process input data into quantitative
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Hey Alex, Congratulation on graduating from Herzing University with your Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and joining the law enforcement family as a Deputy Sheriff’s. As, I understand Alex, you just finished the Sheriff Department Training Academy and will be beginning your career patrolling the north end of the city on the night shift. Alex, some of the important things to remember when you are patrolling your area are citizen’s civil rights, defenses to civil litigation, the elements of managing risk on the job and how your decision could make a positive or negative impact in someone else life.
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