Central banks
Reaping integration rewards
In the October issue of Risk, Clive Davidson discussed the integration of ALM and ERM technology. Here, in a second article, he profiles the firms that have tackled this project and reviews the challenges, advantages and pitfalls of the integration…
Banding together for SME credit risk analytics
Germany’s banking associations are taking a leading role in getting the country’s fragmented banking sector ready to comply with the Basel II capital Accord. Germany’s savings banks association, in particular, says it has internal ratings-based systems…
Basel II and pro-cyclicality
The main argument for making regulatory capital requirements more risk-sensitive is to improve allocational efficiency. But this may lead to intensified business cycles if regulators fail to take measures to prevent such an impact. In this first column…
Market mulls forex options benchmark
Standard foreign exchange options benchmark prices could be the answer to inaccuracies in marking exposures to market, but whether the move is possible is a matter for debate, according to senior options market participants.
Fallacies about the effects of market risk management systems
This paper takes another look at allegations that risk management systems have contributed to increased volatility in financial markets, with the particular example of the summer of 1998. The paper also provides new evidence on the potential effect of…
Deutsche Bank reveals role in 9/11 liquidity facility
Michael Reuther, global head of funding at Deutsche Bank, has revealed today how the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York created an emergency €50 billion ‘synthetic’ liquidity facility in the wake of last year’s World Trade…
BIS seeks replacement for Crockett
BASEL - The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the so-called central bankers' central bank, said in September it had set up a committee to help find a replacement for BIS general manager Andrew Crockett who leaves the bank at the end of March next…
Factoring in stock options
In the wake of recent corporate scandals, support has spread rapidly for including the cost of employee stock options as an expense item in corporate income statements. David Rowe argues that while some reform is appropriate, present trends could end up…
New double-counting methodology responsible for greater-than-expected rise in credit derivatives
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s mid-year survey of the over-the-counter derivatives market showed a substantial increase in credit derivatives notional volumes, growing from $918.9 billion at the end of 2001 to $1.6 trillion at mid…
Reinventing the market
Cashflow CDOs
CDS: the quest for neutral pricing data
Price data services
Insurance sector: moral hazard
Credit of the month
Credit Crunch!
Clive Horwood
Watching for pitfalls
Credit derivatives law
Corporate risk manager of the year
Asia Risk Awards 2002
BIS seeks replacement for Crockett
BASEL II UPDATE
Learning the lessons
Risk’s quarterly round-up of corporate risk revelations shows that increasing shareholder and regulator expectations in the wake of US accounting scandals are having some effect on corporate disclosure, but companies still complain about losses from…
