medium · FRM Part 2 Market Risk
In the context of the Basel traffic-light regime for backtesting a 99% daily VaR model over 250 days, a bank records 8 exceptions.
What is the regulatory consequence?
- The model is in the Green zone; the capital multiplier remains at 3.0.
- The model is in the Red zone; the capital multiplier is set to 4.0 and the model is presumed invalid.
- The model is in the Yellow zone; the capital multiplier m rises to 3.75 and supervisory scrutiny is triggered.
- The model is in the Yellow zone; the capital multiplier m remains at 3.0 but the bank must report to the supervisor.
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