US FRB support

US FRB NPR Specification

Current status

The NPR released for consultation: Basel III Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

  • Deadline to respond is 30th Nov 2023
  • Implementation start date, 1st July 2025

Overview of differences with BCBS

  • The FRB does not use credit ratings.

    • The use of ratings has mostly been replaced by broader credit quality categories.
    • For SA DRC Securitizations, the risk weights cannot be calculated using SEC-ERBA, instead SEC-SA is used.
    • There are no highly rated covered bonds for CSR non-Sec.
    • For SA DRC non-Sec, the risk weights are specified by both bucket and credit quality category.
  • For CSR Curvature, the shocked credit spreads are floored at 0.

  • Some of the risk-weights and correlations that are specified by formulas in BCBS are specified as percentages (and rounded) in the NPR.

  • Equity and Commodity bucket changes.

Change Details

SA SBM

Section Details
Section III.H(7)(a)(ii)(III) For CSR Curvature, the shocked credit spreads are floored at 0.
§ __.209 Table 2
(MAR 21.46)
The GIRR Delta correlations have been rounded.
§ __.209 Table 3
(MAR 21.51)
For CSR non-Sec, bucket 16 has been split out from bucket 9.
§ __.209(b)(4)(iv)
(MAR 21.70 - 21.71)
The correlation between all buckets is 0; this now includes bucket 25.
§ __.209 Table 9
(MAR 21.82)
For Commodities, electricity has been moved from bucket 3 to bucket 6.
§ __.209 Table 11
(MAR 21.92)
The Vega correlations have been rounded.

SA DRC

Section Details
§ __.210 (b)(1)(v) (p 805)
(MAR 22.12)
Additional LGD classifications.
§ __.210(b)(3)(i) and § __.210 Table 1
(MAR 22.22 and 22.24)
For DRC non-Sec, risk-weights are based on bucket as well as credit quality category.
§ __.210 (c)(3)(iii)(C) and § __.210 (d)(3)(iv)(D)
(MAR 22.34)
For DRC Sec non-CTP and DRC Sec CTP, risk-weights are calculated using SEC-SA (§ __.133 / CRE 41) and not SEC-ERBA (CRE 42).

US-NPR parameter set

Atoti FRTB includes the US-NPR parameter set, inheriting all the parameters from the (default) BCBS parameter set.

To use these parameters in queries, set the “Parameter Set” level to “US-NPR” (instead of the default “BCBS”).

For details on using the Parameter Sets widget, see Parameter Sets What-If Widget