Risk buffer and risk reserve (sovereign-capital buffer)

Measures aimed at preventing a bank from taking on too large a risk position, i.e. dampening its risk appetite. The means of choice (means to this end) are proportional or even disproportionate borrowed capital.
(disproportionately high) increasing capital requirements. – See investment liability, Basel III, moral hazard, risk weighting, risk control, risk measurement procedures, risk assumption principle, risk avoidance policy, risk reporting, risk monitoring, structured, scenarios, exceptional, backing, value at risk, loss event, warehousing risk, twelve-field risk matrix. – Cf. BaFin Annual Report 2011, p. 154 f. (calculation of a risk reserve based on the decisions of the EU finance ministers of October 2011).

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