Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a method which provides a given firm to have an overview of all its key risks and associated information, therefore enabling the board and management team to make balanced, cross region wide risk decisions. Risks are Opportunities Earlier, so it seems, the world was less dangerous. Today, more and more enterprises with […]
Risk Assessment
VIDEO: Risk Management For Project Leaders Webinar
This is another useful webinar by Simplilearn, focusing on the two main dimensions of Risk (probability and impact) as well as the 9 step Risk Management process and other relevant aspects such why Risk Leadership is so important, most common mistakes, root causes identification, among other important points. This is a actually a very thorough […]
Thomson Reuters Culture and Conduct Risk Survey 2016/17
This is Thomson Reuters’ forth annual survey, focusing on how financial services firms are managing conduct risk has identified distinct industry wide trends against which firms can benchmark their own progress. Last year, compliance and risk practitioners from more than 260 financial services firms across the world, including banks, brokers, asset managers and insurers took […]
How Much Risk Should I Take?
If you read technical analysis reports or any kind of possible “predictive” analysis reports on markets performance – if they have a commercial angle – you will often read the statement “past performances do not guarantee future performances“. This is obviously an important disclaimer that whoever is selling must include in any literature going out […]
Leverage and Risk Weighted Capital Requirements
The global financial crisis has highlighted the limitations of risk-sensitive bank capital ratios. To tackle this problem, the Basel III regulatory framework has introduced a minimum leverage ratio, defined as a banks Tier 1 capital over an exposure measure, which is independent of risk assessment. Using a medium sized DSGE model that features a banking […]
A post-Brexit Assessment of Risks to Debt Sustainability in the Euro Area
Over a month has gone and BREXIT effects are still unfolding. Many defend that the essential feeling is uncertainty and the real effects caused by the fact that the United Kingdom did vote to leave Europe, will only be felt a time goes by. In the meantime, lots of literature and commentators write about BREXIT on a daily basis. Professor John Iannis Mourmouras, […]
Business Continuity Management Tookit
The UK HM Government has done a great job putting this toolkit in place, which is very useful for anyone working with BCP or Operational Risk. The toolkit essential goal is to help put the theory into practice through objective steps that a BCP manager will need to take to implement BCM in an organisation. […]
McKinsey on Risk
McKinsey’s new publication features the best of its thinking on risk and risk-management issues, with McKinsey’s inaugural issue examining the evolving role of credit portfolio management, regulations affecting European banks, how to manage technology risk, and the value of digitally transforming credit-risk management. The paper also covers: The future of bank risk management Nonfinancial risk: […]
