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The Bretton Woods Conference was a meeting of representatives of 44 non-communist countries in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA in 1944.
''Bank supervision - capital adequacy''.


Its objectives included preventing another major global depression, following the anticipated ending of World War II.
(RWAs).


The underlying mechanism was to encourage open global markets.
Risk Weighted Assets provide a measure of the total scale and risk of a regulated bank's activities, against which the bank is required to hold minimum levels of regulatory capital.




Representatives agreed on the characteristics of the international monetary system, effectively a fixed exchange rate system, which prevailed until 1971.
In simple terms, assets are multiplied by appropriate risk weightings - historically ranging from 0% to 100% depending on the level of risk - and aggregated.


The conference led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Other risks, including operational risk and off balance sheet risk, are also appropriately evaluated and risk weighted, adding additional RWAs to the regulatory total.




The full name of the conference was the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.
The calculation of RWAs has been increasingly refined over time.


Risk weights may, in some cases, be derived from individual banks' own internal risk models, subject to the regulator's approval.


== See also ==
Other risk weightings are determined on a standardised basis for all banks.
* [[Bretton Woods]]
 
* [[Depression]]
 
* [[European Economic Community]]
Also known as ''total risk weighted exposure''.
* [[Exchange rate]]
 
* [[Great Depression]]
 
* [[International Monetary Fund]]
==See also==
* [[Marshall Plan]]
*[[Bank supervision]]
* [[Smithsonian Agreement]]
*[[Basel 3.1]]
* [[United Nations]]
*[[Capital]]
* [[World Bank]]
*[[Capital adequacy]]
*[[CET1 ratio]]
*[[Credit Conversion Factor]] (CCF)
*[[Off balance sheet risk]]
*[[Operational risk]]
*[[Pillar 1]]
*[[Total capital ratio]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]

Revision as of 22:57, 28 February 2023

Bank supervision - capital adequacy.

(RWAs).

Risk Weighted Assets provide a measure of the total scale and risk of a regulated bank's activities, against which the bank is required to hold minimum levels of regulatory capital.


In simple terms, assets are multiplied by appropriate risk weightings - historically ranging from 0% to 100% depending on the level of risk - and aggregated.

Other risks, including operational risk and off balance sheet risk, are also appropriately evaluated and risk weighted, adding additional RWAs to the regulatory total.


The calculation of RWAs has been increasingly refined over time.

Risk weights may, in some cases, be derived from individual banks' own internal risk models, subject to the regulator's approval.

Other risk weightings are determined on a standardised basis for all banks.


Also known as total risk weighted exposure.


See also