Progressive Credit Risk Management (CRM) Improving The Cost and Availability Of Corporate Credit
Progressive Credit Risk Management (CRM) transparently presents “own credit risk” to improve Asset-Backed transaction terms. When the CRM output is combined with insurance and funding methodologies, the financial benefits are striking. This is because banks rarely offer funding terms based on a due diligence process as thorough as the company themselves can execute daily.
Policymakers are keen for banks to lend. However, the banking model is broken. Many of the methodologies developed to intermediate credit are no longer cost effective or trusted by investors. Banks have responded by tightening credit issuance and de-leveraging. Alongside tougher Basel and domestic regulation, fee-earning has been hit. Banks are using general de-leveraging to cleanse their exposure to individuals, companies, other banks/ Financial Institutions and sovereigns who they believe will not only be unable or unwilling to repay debt but also unable to afford the cost of re-priced risk.
Michel Barnier introduction date for the new directive put back from October 2012 to 31 December 2012
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Speaking on Tuesday 4 May in BXL at a hearing on the EU's Solvability II Directive (2009/138/EC) revising the surveillance system for insurance and re-insurance (see EUROPE 9887), EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said that very few insurers' tax years end on 31 October and he therefore wants the introduction date for the new directive to be put back from 31 October 2012 to 31 December 2012 in order to bring it into line with the end of most insurance companies' tax years (31 December). The review of the Solvability II Directive will be part of the draft "Omnibus II" legislation expected to be unveiled in June 2010 to amend several pieces of financial services legislation to incorporate changes set out in the EU financial supervision package.