Granted, risk weightings may never accurately reflect what's going on in the real world, but the newest proposal may fall into the same trap.
The Bank offers a number of financial services and products, including flexible loans, grants, risk guarantees, financial derivatives, and catastrophic risk financing.
Large, low-priced stock grants risk giving executives "a windfall gain when really maybe all they did was ride the market back up," said Matt Turner, a managing director at compensation consultants Pearl Meyer & Partners.
The chief operating officer at Airbus, Fabrice Brégier, signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Development Reform Commission that granted risk-sharing supply contracts to Chinese manufacturers for many of the A350's moving parts, including wing flaps and tail rudders.
Children between 0 to 18 years of age are granted risk-rated premiums with regard to age on a mandatory basis.
Oaxacans practice a spunky form of Catholicism: in some villages, saints who fail to grant favors risk getting slugged by their petitioners.
This might put Labour's ethnic minority vote, long taken for granted, at risk.
These grants cover risk research on everything from biotech fish, insects and plants to viruses.
But only a fool would take this for granted: the risk of a much bumpier touchdown is real.
In a report released on Friday, Oil Change International (OCI) identified $3.4bn£2.3bnbn) of loans, grants, guarantees, risk management and equity for fossil fuel-related projects in the developing world in the 2013-14 financial year.
