View from the top: Models behaving badly

City of London

As with widely reported sat-nav disasters, what is going on in the banking sector as financial institutions embed the Basel III regulatory framework is testing investors' faith in what their computers are telling them, says Roger Bickmore.

There is a huge variation between banks in the estimates of risk and capital required for the same or similar categories of loans.

There is a widespread belief that banks are massaging models to cut

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