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Significant Risk Transfer’s impact on the output floor under Basel III: the EU’s proposed panacea unveiled

18 March 2024 / Author(s): Tauhid Ijaz , George Kiladze
Issue: December 2023 / Categories: Feature

The European Banking Authority, in its Basel III full implementation impact report11 found that European banks’ Tier 1 capital requirements would increase by 15% as a 1result of Basel III changes, with the proposals for an output floor being responsible for a 7.1% overall rise. In this article, the authors consider how significant risk transfer (SRT) transactions can be used to decrease a bank’s risk weighted assets (RWAs) in order to minimise their capital burden in light of increased capital requirements as a result of the output floor. Other capital requirements specific to securitisations are also considered.1 1

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