medium · FRM Part 2 Operational Risk

A bank's Internal Rating Based (IRB) model for a loan portfolio produces a Probability of Default (PD) of 2%. The bank's validation team notes that the 'Accuracy Ratio' (AR) of the model has dropped from 0.75 to 0.45.

What is the primary concern for the bank?

  1. The model's Type 1 error rate in backtesting has become far too high, leading to excessive capital charges
  2. The model's discriminatory power is failing; it can no longer effectively distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' borrowers.
  3. The model's calibration is failing outright, since the predicted 2% PD diverges sharply from realized historical defaults
  4. The model's LGD estimate is likely overstated now, since LGD and the Accuracy Ratio move together across credit cycles historically

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