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Basel Accords
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Oct 29, 2026
Jeff WaltonGUEST
And I think some of these things can change.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
This was the result of the Basel Accords after the great financial crisis in 07 and 08. they established these requirements, risk weightings for certain assets, and certain assets have different risk weightings.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
Like equities, for example, have a 300% risk weighting.
Jeff WaltonGUEST
Mortgages have a 500% risk weighting.
Matt DinesHOST
Credit, corporate bonds have credit risk.
Matt DinesHOST
So you can take losses on these, right? And that's where these Basel rules, if you see the Basel III discussions, the end game, that implementation, all of that, The banking systems in each one of these sovereigns are in process of complying with the Basel Accords, the latest version of them.
Matt DinesHOST
And in this framework, the banks have risk-weighted assets where any given loan that they originate carries a capital charge.
Matt DinesHOST
And so for a corporate bond, you might have to carry that at 100% risk asset weighting.
Patrick BoyleHOST
So things like insurance and options, because that's what we've learned, options are a lot like insurance policies.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Things like Basel Accords at banks, value at risk, which we're about to learn about, calculations like beta that just tell us how much a given portfolio should move for a given move in, in the index, and risk modeling.
Patrick BoyleHOST
So these are the tools that are generally used by risk managers.
Patrick BoyleHOST
So at this point, we'll take a fifteen-minute break, and we'll, uh, we'll...
Jeffrey ChristianGUEST
Silver is too small of a market, too volatile of a market.
Jeffrey ChristianGUEST
The central banks have agreed among themselves through the Basel Accords and other agreements that silver isn't sufficiently liquid to be a monetary reserve.
Ben NadelsteinHOST
Jeffrey, sticking on silver, what do you think of this idea we hear all the time, silver is in a massive deficit, therefore the price of silver has to go up.
Ben NadelsteinHOST
It's simple supply and demand.
Chris BrummerGUEST
Yeah, they're like, "Yeah, yeah." Like, like literally the entire semester, you know, uh, you know, when we...
Chris BrummerGUEST
Even when you think about things like the Basel Accord, like there is no treaty for the Basel Accord.
Chris BrummerGUEST
There is no Basel Accord treaty, right? Like, there is no treaty of IOSCO, you know, the International, um, Organization of Securities Commissions, right?
Jens SeidelHOST
Mm-hmm.
Chris BrummerGUEST
Like, literally the instruments of getting stuff done across borders, you know, you just have like rules and methodologies, and then like you'll have this line, uh, even from the FSB or something that'll say, "By the way, this is not like legal.