Open Hearing for validation and review of CRA methodologies
Auditorium, ESMA, 103 Rue de Grenelle – 75007, Paris
To attend the hearing, please sign up using the registration form and email it to SUP-secretariat@esma.europa.eu. Please make sure that you fill in all the fields.
We ask that attendance is restricted to two participants per entity or group of entities.
Registrations are open until 18 January 2016.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will hold an open hearing on the issues set out in its Discussion Paper on the Validation and Review of Credit Rating Agencies’ methodologies published in November 2015.
The discussion paper requests views on how CRAs should demonstrate rating methodologies’ ‘discriminatory power’, ‘historical robustness’, ‘predictive power’ or, where there is limited quantitative evidence, that the methodologies are ‘sensible predictors of credit worthiness’. In addition, the DP asks how CRAs should meet the requirement in both Articles 7 and 8 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 447/2012 on rating methodologies that the CRAs shall have ‘processes in place to ensure that systemic credit rating anomalies highlighted by back-testing are identified and are appropriately addressed’.
The purpose of this discussion paper is to help ESMA to develop further its views on the quantitative and qualitative techniques used as part of the validation of methodologies required under the CRA Regulation.
This hearing will be of interest to all credit rating agencies supervised by ESMA. It is will also be of interest to all users of credit ratings, but particularly those with a background in the validation of credit risk models and methodologies.