Structured products
The risk transfer shell game
Credit derivatives
Managing post-convergence risks in financial conglomerates
Regulatory capital
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.
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.
East European banks could pay Basel II dividend
Major east European banks could take advantage of the Basel II bank capital adequacy accord to reduce their high levels of capital charges through paying higher dividends, a senior Czech banker said in April.
Standard Chartered's New Risk Architecture
An enterprise-wide risk engine will better integrate risk measurement with business decisions.
Chief risk officers
Risk is the business of insurance companies, but risk management in the sector is not nearly as developed as it is in the banking industry. Now, a new crop of chief risk officers will be trying to change all that.
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.
Regulators plan trio of Basel II papers for October
Global banking regulators plan to issue on October 1 a working paper on the treatment of asset securitisation in the Basel II banking accord, one of the issues delaying the coming-into-effect of the controversial pact until late 2006.
Measuring the Unexpected
The events of Sept. 11 brought increased attention and confusion to the practice of managing operational risk.
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Credit awards 2002
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DrKW hires Myer
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