Part 1: How should regulators verify and validate a bank's Internal Ratings Based models. What measures should they use for consumer risk models and for corporate and sovereign risk models?.
Part 2: Are the ratings proposed by the rating agencies point in time or through the cycle estimates. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of ratings? What type does the Basel Accord require and what if anything does a bank need to do to make the rating agencies ratings appropriate for the Basel Accord.
Part 3; If Basel II had been in operation during the sub prime mortgage crisis in the US in 2008 what affect would it have had. Will the changes proposed in Basel III Accord deal with the problems that have caused the global financial crisis?