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Under the Basel II.5 regulatory framework, banks are required to assess market risk using Value at Risk (VaR) and stressed VaR. This evaluation includes a component that considers stress scenarios over a distressed period. In this context, supervisory authorities assign multiplication factors of 3 to both VaR and stressed VaR to determine the capital requirements for market risk.
The following table gives the risk measures for the current trading book positions of a bank (values in USD million):
Confidence Level | Latest 10-day VaR | Average 10-day VaR (previous 60 days) | Latest 10-day Stressed VaR | Average 10-day Stressed VaR (previous 60 days) |
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95.0% | 238 | 252 | 484 | 546 |
99.0% | 451 | 413 | 995 | 1,106 |
99.9% | 578 | 528 | 1,281 | 1,372 |
Calculate the accurate capital requirement for general market risk for the bank using these risk measures and the given supervisory multiplication factors.