Profit and loss accounts are normally produced every year, showing the profit or loss made over the past 12 months. This is known as the trading period. There are many stakeholders that will be ...

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The profit-and-loss attribution test is one of two regulator-set tests that a bank’s trading desk must pass in order to use the internal models approach for market risk capital calculations. The test ...