Regulation and Operational Risk Helmut Bauer | 7 February 2006.

Regulation and Operational Risk

Helmut Bauer | 7 February 2006

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Outline

• About a long march that ended in banking regulation

• Committee of European Banking Supervisors („CEBS“) and the

Lamfalussy architecture

• CEBS guidelines on validation of AMA (CEBS CP 10 revised)

• A new neoliberal breed of standardization programs or collective intelligence?

• From design to delivery - CEBS work program for 2006 - operational networks for home/host cooperation and „maintenance“ of guidelines



Mao Tse Tung:

“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land. Different foms and styles in art should develop freely and different schools in science should contend freely. We think that it is harmful to the growth of art and science if administrative measures are used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and to ban another. Questions of right and wrong in the arts and sciences should be settled through free discussion in artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields. They should not be settled in summary fashion.”



Advise the Commission

Contribute to the consistent implementation of Community Directives and the convergence of … supervisory practices

Enhance supervisory co-operation


CEBS - Membership

CEBS members are high level representatives from the banking supervisory authorities and central banks of the European Union, including the European Central Bank

25 countries and 46 member organisations, observers from EEA* countries, the European Commission and the Banking Supervision Committee of ESCB (European System for Central Banks)

Chairman - Danièle Nouy Vice Chair - Helmut BauerSecretary General - Andrea Enria

* Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway


CEBS - The Lamfalussy architecture

EU adopted FSAP in 1999 to ensure appropriate regulation and supervision ofa single financial market. The current structures of supervisory cooperation were considered inadequate to deal with cross-border integration and financial conglomerates.

Committee of Wise Men set up in 2000 chaired by Alexandre Lamfalussy. Recommendations endorsed by the European Council in 2001.

Need for faster and more flexible legislation, broad implementing powers for new committees, enhanced cooperation between supervisors to ensure uniform implementation and application in Member States and stronger enforcement.

First applied to securities markets, banking and insurance to follow

Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) established in September 2001

Committee of European Banking Supervisor (CEBS) established in November 2003



Ecofin Council

EBC¹

Economic and Financial Committee

-----------------------Financial Stability Table

CESR³FinancialServices

Committee¹

European Parliament

European Commission

CEIOPS²

EIOPC¹

Primary legislatorsLamfalussy Level 1

Regulatory CommitteesLamfalussy Level 2

Supervisory Committees Lamfalussy Level 3

ESC¹ FCC¹

CEBS²

CEBS gives advice to the Commission on level 2 banking policy issues, contributes to a consistent implementation of EU legislation and promotes the convergence of Member

States’ supervisory practices as well as co-operation between supervisors

¹ Finance ministries² Supervisors and Central Banks³ Supervisors

EBC = European Banking CommitteeEIOPC = European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Committee ESC = European Securities CommitteeFCC = Financial Conglomerates CommitteeCEIOPS = Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions SupervisorsCESR = Committee of European Securities Regulators


technical annexes

directive

European Parliament, ECOFIN Council

European Commission, European Banking Committee

standards, guidelines, recommendations

Level 2 implementation details rules based

Level 1 legislative frame principles based

Level 3 consistent implementation, convergence of supervisory practices



are consensus-based

are not legally binding – hence not regulation


Guidelines on validation - CP 10 revised


Guidelines on validation - CP 10 revised


General AMA assessment issues


• Use test - internal governance – role of senior management

• Data (business environment / internal control factors) and its reporting

From measurement to management


Validation guidelines - Use test


Validation guidelines - Use test


Validation guidelines - Data quality


Validation guidelines - Reporting


Validation guidelines - Reporting


Validation guidelines - summary

• Reflect current thinking based on supervisory experience

• Evolve with industry practice and supervisory experience from examination and decision processes

• Address supervisors in the first place

• Combine clarification of firm regulatory requirements with flexible principles and related illustrative examples

• Are subject to the test of time and require „maintenance“


Mao Tse Tung:

“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land. Different foms and styles in art should develop freely and different schools in science should contend freely. We think that it is harmful to the growth of art and science if administrative measures are used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and to ban another. Questions of right and wrong in the arts and sciences should be settled through free discussion in artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields. They should not be settled in summary fashion.”


Neoliberal standardization programs

Michael Power in “Standardization and the Regulation of Management Control Practices” (2002):

“... these proposals (i.e. use of in-house models for operational risks) by the Basel Committee, a club of national banking regulators, ... have stimulated conceptual work to support operational risk management process standards. ...”

„In place of hierarchical models of control … ideas of self-organization and self-assessment have grown in influence and have become prominently institutionalised … in banking regulation through the work of the Basel Committee. System and internal control standards produced by these and other agencies express ideas of neoliberal administration …“

The ideal organization is rapidly becoming the one which does not simply comply with imperialistic commands, but which observes itself, knows its risks and which can make its commitment to self-observation and control visible to outsiders.“

„… this new neoliberal breed of standardization programs … combines a normalizing role for standards with an emphasis on the role of local managerial capability for self-ordering.“

„… the state in many cases functions as regulator of last resort or guardian of general principles …“


Collective intelligence

Torsten Strulik, Matthias Kussin in “Financial Market Regulation and Knowledge Politics” (2005):

“... It is apparent that the strategic creation of innovation is a crucial aim in economics, politics and law. ... Of central interest is if and to what extent the new ‘cognitive’ supervisory regime (Basel II) creates conditions for a mixed public-private form of risk management that is in accordance with the increasing demands for the creation of stability and innovation.“

„ … For the regulation of the banking system this means, that within the frame of public-private arrangements collective learning may be observed …“

“Basel II - the regulatory constitution of collective intelligence”


Learning

Somewhat prepared

63%

Not very prepared

23%

Very prepared14%

Perception of Home Regulators Preparedness For Regulatory Approval Process

Very helpful38%

Not helpful10%

Somewhat helpful52%

Perception of Home Regulators Helpfulness When Seeking Guidance, Direction, or an Indication of Their Preferred

Approach



From design to delivery - CEBS 2006

• „2006 will … mark a shift in orientation and emphasis – from design to delivery of a more convergent supervisory framework“

• „… operational networks for the supervision of cross-border groups and cooperation between consolidating and host supervisors will be responsible for ensuring their (i.e. guidelines) effective application …“

• „… setting up of operational networks is particularly important with regard to the supervision of EU cross-border banking groups – consolidating home … and host supervisors will have to cooperate and coordinate supervisory activities at the operational level …“

• „… CEBS will develop a model for … [written multilateral cooperation] arrangements (as required according to Art. 131 CRD) in order to steer the process and ensure consistency of cooperation …“

• „… CEBS will initiate and coordinate joint home/host supervisory work within the emerging operational networks … “ surveys on market practices

Contact details:Name: Helmut Bauer email: [email protected]: +49 228 4108 1447

Regulation and Operational Risk Helmut Bauer | 7 February 2006.

Documents

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european council

european union

financial committee

lamfalussy architecture

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appropriate regulation

european central bank