Risk management
Anti-fraud product of the year: Moody’s Analytics
In a competitive landscape that demands robust risk management and compliance solutions, Moody’s Analytics has emerged as a standout vendor, securing the Anti-fraud product of the year award at the Risk Technology Awards 2023
Op Risk Benchmarking: Inside the G-Sibs
New initiative scrutinises op risk measurement and management practices at the world’s largest banks
Easing the pressure of FRTB implementation
Recent US bank defaults have raised new questions over US FRTB implementation. But what impact would that have? Colleen Cosgrove of ActiveViam discusses the importance of FRTB, the implementation challenges ahead and how technology can help in the process
Risk analytics are key to banks’ digital transformation
Market volatility and external influences are changing the way banks manage risk. SAS Australia explores how adopting digital transformation, alongside a dynamic and agile analytics-first approach, can provide banks with real-time data for identifying…
Raising the bar on operational resilience
The FCA's operational resilience guidelines set clear expectations for how financial firms should strengthen their resilience against operational disruptions. But how are firms faring in meeting these goals?
US regional bank casualties: the Fitch Ratings view
The rapid collapse of four US banks in March raised serious questions over risk management failures and regulatory blind spots. Christopher Wolfe and Olivia Perney of Fitch Ratings discuss the root causes of the problems in the US – and concerns…
A new era for risk: the move toward ‘customer risk experience’
Research into the risk function of the future has identified a strong and accelerated drive to consider risk management as a key enabler of a great customer experience. This evolution has been termed the ‘customer risk experience’
Risk managers mull Basel-style climate standards
Risk Live: Splintered approach to stress-testing across jurisdictions “very, very worrying”, says risk expert
Risk managers warn of emerging geopolitical crisis in Asia
Risk Live: Rising political tension between China and Taiwan has bank risk management teams on high alert
Inflation could persist ‘for a very long time’
Risk Live: Buy-side risk managers say stagflation threat remains
ERM reboot: how insurers are turning risk decisioning into strategic advantage
Enterprise risk management is a powerful strategy to identify, assess and manage risks across the business. For insurers, two ERM objectives are critical: ensuring regulatory compliance and establishing a framework for healthy investment risk appetite
Cloud control: optimising cloud for risk management gains
Cloud adoption has accelerated rapidly among capital markets participants in recent years. This Risk.net webinar explores how firms can optimise their usage of cloud, driving greater efficiency, avoiding common pitfalls and keeping costs to a minimum
The information value of past losses in operational risk
The authors argue that past operational losses inform future losses at banks and that the information provided by past losses results from their capturing factors that are hard to quantify in other tests.
Does board diversity mitigate firm risk-taking? Empirical evidence from China
The authors explore the relationship between firm risk and both demographic and cognitive-oriented board diversity.
Leveraging compliance: the looming challenges of the post-FRTB paradigm
FRTB guidelines will soon be implemented across a wide section of the global financial industry and will introduce a mountain of complexity to risk management standards and practices. Roger Coroas, head of business development, North America at…
US banks seize chance to transfer securities from HTM to AFS
Wells Fargo, JP Morgan and Citi reclassify $34bn following new hedge accounting treatment
JSCC and the future of clearing and settling yen-denominated trades
The Japanese Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) explores how market participants can benefit from a wide array of yen products while accessing robust risk and margin management frameworks with a high level of transparency
At US banks, less than 50% of liquid assets classified as AFS
Goldman Sachs reported smallest proportion relative to HQLAs across US banks subject to LCR
Like SVB, five other US lenders saw negative NII growth in 2022
Ally, Customers, First Foundation, Morgan Stanley and PacWest were pressured by rising rates
Dynamic class-imbalanced financial distress prediction based on case-based reasoning integrated with time weighting and resampling
The authors put forward a dynamic class-imbalanced CBR FDP model which is shown, using data from Chinese listed companies, to outperform static and dynamic CBR FDP models without resampling or time weighting.
Top 10 operational risks for 2023
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
Incorporating climate risk into ALM frameworks for banks
Banks are coming under increasing regulatory pressure to incorporate climate risk into their risk management frameworks. An emerging focus is incorporating climate risk into the asset-liability management (ALM) function. This webinar explores this new…
Operational risk: a global examination based on bibliometric analysis
The authors quantitively assess the quality of research on operational risk and find that research in this area has grown in popularity in recent years.