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Guarded optimism hinges on new tools
Catastrophe bonds
Sweetening the deal
M&A insurance
The risk transfer shell game
Credit derivatives
Managing post-convergence risks in financial conglomerates
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Breaking through basket credit default swaps pricing
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Corporate focus on credit risk management
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Insurers play catch-up
Insurance companies around the globe are beginning to look at their own risk management practices and are finding them wanting. As a result, many firms are beginning to upgrade their risk procedures.
Lessons Emerging from Disaster
Web access to market data and other tools could trim costs of maintaining redundant office space.
Regulators study terms for abolishing op risk floor
Global banking regulators have asked their technical experts to look at what kind of conditions need to exist in order to get rid of the floor that limits the potential gains for banks using advanced approaches to measuring op risk under the Basel II…
A cost/benefit approach to Basel II
The cost of implementing Basel II could put banks at a competitive disadvantage compared with non-banks, and spur them to ‘de-bank’ to avoid this regulatory burden. Harry Stordel and Andrew Cross say regulators must look at the provisions from a cost…
Weaving an integrated solution
A treacherous credit environment and growing awareness of the danger of credit and market risk correlation have convinced financial institutions that they need to evaluate these exposures together. To get a unified view, will they need to adopt unified…
Industry On Alert
A joint finance-technology-government effort to safeguard the market infrastructure has already resulted in a secret command center and preliminary guidelines for industry-wide best practices.
Standard Chartered's New Risk Architecture
An enterprise-wide risk engine will better integrate risk measurement with business decisions.
Basel II op risk survey planned for June 1
Global banking regulators hope to issue another survey on June 1 seeking information from banks on their operational losses, in order to help with the development of the Basel II bank capital adequacy accord, said regulators in late April.
Basel regulators hope for SME solution by mid-June
Global banking regulators said in late April they were optimistic they could resolve by mid-June the vexed question of the treatment of lending to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Basel II bank capital adequacy accord.
Measuring the Unexpected
The events of Sept. 11 brought increased attention and confusion to the practice of managing operational risk.
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