A financial institution recently changed its definition of defaulting as it moved from a standard approach to an advanced, internal rating-based approach to potentially reduce its capital requirements and credit risk. The change to the Basel definition means that the institution's entire historical database needed to be modified. In this case, the new default definition in the institution is calculated using at least six other variables that need to be stored and checked for data quality across several years.
Definition changes
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