An Introduction to Credit Risk in Banking: BASEL, IFRS9, Pricing, Statistics, Machine Learning — PART 2

Willem Pretorius
19 min readMar 11, 2023

Welcome back! In my previous post (PART 1) I introduced the basic terminology & building blocks to credit risk management in banking. In this part, I will continue building upon these basics. I will discuss Rating Philosophies in banking, IFRS9, important regulatory frameworks in the EU, Use Cases & different models for credit risk and finally a list of important statistical concepts that is needed to build & validate credit models. In later posts, the focus will shift towards statistics/machine learning and implementation of this list with examples in Python.

Table of Contents

International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9)

Rating Philosophies

Important Regulatory Frameworks in the EU

Use Cases & Different Models for Credit Risk

Additional Concepts for the Future

Statistical Concepts for Modelling & Validation

International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9)

IFRS9, a set of accounting standards, was issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in July 2014, replacing the previous International…

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Willem Pretorius

Data Scientist Credit Risk at Rabobank Netherlands | Quant | Financial Engineer