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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Model validator?

Definition 18.4 The Industry: Firms, Roles and Careers · Chapter 18 — Bank Quant

A model validator is a quantitative analyst in a bank’s model risk management function who reviews models built by others, independently of their developers and owners: conceptual soundness, implementation, data, performance and limitations, and who records findings that the developers must resolve before or after the model is approved for use.

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