Many voices have been expressing their concerns on the US president-elect Donald Trump. Millions of tweets, blog posts, written press articles, hours of TV debates in different channels… One thing is for sure: there is great uncertainty in the next four years. The key aspect now is to watch how Donald Trump unfolds his policies […]
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Residual Risk Scoring Matrix Example
While each firm has its own risks scoring guide, most firms will follow common guidelines, such as suggested by IOSCO on the Risk Identification and Assessment Methodologies for Securities Regulators. This article includes examples of risk scoring matrices used for Impact (inherent or gross risk – described in our section Risk Register), Likelihood (or probability), and the […]
How to Create a Risk Heatmap in Excel – Part 1
Risk heat maps are commonly used in operational risk management and are specially useful to represent a firm’s risks in a visual manner, highlighting the ones that need to be managed more closely. When assessing operational risk, the risk manager will typically use a spreadsheet to record its firm’s key risks and rate the impact and likelihood (or probability) assessment scores for […]
10 Essential Risk Management Videos – Part 1
This article includes a series of Risk Management videos, covering several topics which are relevant specially for Market Risk professionals. The videos included cover the following topics (click on the different topics below to access directly the embedded video). Forwards Futures Hedging Hedging with Futures Put options Call options Put-Call Parity Combining Payoffs Payoffs Total […]
FREE COURSE: Mastering Data Analysis in Excel
This is a free course delivered by Coursera, which is an education platform that partners with top universities and organisations worldwide, offering online courses online for anyone interested. Risk Managers frequently need to work with Excel and some of its advanced tools. This free course will prepare you to design and implement realistic predictive models based on data. […]
EBOOK: Reimagining Risk: An integrated Approach to Enterprise Risk Management
Jim DeLoach has more than 40 years of experience in global consulting in business, IT, Risk and Internal Audit. He is currently a member of the Protiviti Solutions Leadership Team. Jim has authored several books, including Enterprise-Wide Risk Management: Strategies for Linking Risk & Opportunity (Financial Times Management Briefings) (FT Management Briefings) (the first book […]
Exclusive Interview with Options Expert & Author Pierino Ursone
Pierino Ursone has more than twenty years working as a professional Options trader in the equity and commodity markets (half of it as a Market Maker in Equity Options, the other half as a Proprietary Options trader in the Energy Markets). He has authored Amazon’s popular book How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks: […]
10 Must Have Skills to be a Successful Risk Manager
As regulatory requirements shift and evolve, so must Risk and Compliance professionals keep improving and grow their skills and knowledge. Keeping up with regulation and ongoing wider regulatory programmes, as well as covering the day to day operations at financial firms or banks, requires that Risk Managers are constantly learning, adapting and systematically moving their […]
