Weighing up risks and rewards

Are banks manipulating their risk weighted assets to ensure that they have to hold less capital? A report from the European Banking Authority suggests that there are plenty of unexplained differences in the way that banks assess their risks but as Lex's Oliver Ralph and Stuart Kirk discuss, there is more to RWA variation than skulduggery.

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