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The majority of bankers with whom I met during my research expressed the opinion that, in general, credit risk models should incorporate an element of compliance to policies established by the board, the rules set by regulators, and the law of the land. Many pressed the point that institutions and their credit risk systems should account for what happens at the tail of the credit distribution, the outliers shown in Figure 5.1 as an example.

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Chorafas, D.N. (2002). Debts and the Use of Models in Evaluating Credit Risk. In: Modelling the Survival of Financial and Industrial Enterprises. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501737_5

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