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SA banks complete QIS4
SOUTH AFRICA – The South African Reserve Bank is due to release feedback on the results of its fourth quantitative impact study (QIS4) this July, according to Andre Blaauw, general manager for enterprise risk management at Absa Bank, South Africa’s…
Building a risk culture
German bank WestLB appointed its first chief risk officer, Matthijs van den Adel, last year after posting heavy losses in 2002 and 2003. His first job was to restructure the bank’s entire risk management framework. By Duncan Wood
LDCE results show risk sensitivity in US banks, says Rosengren
NEW YORK – Initial results of the loss data collection exercise (LDCE) show that US Basel II banks are holding operational risk capital that is proportional to their losses, according to Eric Rosengren, senior vice-president at the Federal Reserve Bank…
A pragmatic approach to modelling KRIs and their impact on OpVaR
Although there is a wealth of data on key risk indicators, there is not enough guidance on how to use it, says Aniruddho Sanyal
A Markovian approach to modelling correlated defaults
Vladyslav Putyatin, David Prieul and Svetlana Maslova unveil a simple dynamic binomial credit model with a Poissonian mixing distribution to satisfy the constraints faced by financial institutions assessing their credit exposure in a consistent manner…
What has op risk to do with ‘credit’ ratings?
How should credit rating agencies include op risk in their assessment of firms’ creditworthiness? By Choongo Moonga
Mandate expands, but money doesn’t
Operational risk managers face two contradictory forces: greatly increased responsibility but not-so-greatly increased resources, according to our third annual global operational risk survey. By Ellen Davis
China in its hand
As Industrial Commercial Bank of China receives a $15 billion bailout from the government, the challenges in attracting foreign investment and strengthening the sector become ever more apparent. James Ockenden talks to the China Banking Regulatory…
Basel Committee calls for dialogue on ERM
MONTE CARLO – Ryozo Himino, secretary general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, called on bankers and regulators to engage in a constructive dialogue to achieve the dream of real enterprise-wide risk management, in a keynote speech at the…
Complaints over SOX compliance fall largely on deaf ears
WASHINGTON, DC – Recent protest from corporate executives about the expense and amount of time consumed by firms in their efforts to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act (SOX) was met with mere acknowledgement at hearings held by the House…