Operational risk
Exceptional operational risks: Three myths debunked
Are there common features among exceptional operational risks beyond their defining characteristics of rarity and severe consequences?
Buy side slow on FpMLtake-up
LONDON - One would be forgiven for thinking that Financial Products Mark-up Language (FpML) is another information exchange standard that has been superseded or has simply run out of steam, given the protocol's low media profile in the wake of the…
Derivatives disclosure calls mount
Warren Buffett's stinging critique of the derivatives business in March represents the latest call for more derivatives disclosure. But despite some notable moves in this direction, most financial institutions remain stubbornly opaque.
Banks set to define op risk modelling for regulators at May conference
NEW YORK - The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's Risk Management Group is organising a conference in New York at the end of May designed to help the international regulatory body understand current bank op risk modelling practices and inform the…
The data deluge
Instant messaging and e-mail are critical tools for traders. But the need to oversee and archive the huge volumes of data they create has become a serious operational risk issue for broker-dealers. Clive Davidson examines the ways firms are dealing with…
Risk Europe 2003: Still no "best practice" for integrating economic and regulatory capital, says Buerger
There is still no "best practice" approach to implementing an effective risk management framework that integrates economic and regulatory capital requirements, Peter Buerger, head of group risk control at Germany's Commerzbank, told delegates attending…
Landesbanken to offer credit loss database to third parties
Three of Germany's largest Landesbanken and the consultancy BearingPoint are planning to bring a credit loss database (CLD) that they are developing jointly to the market in the second half of this year. The tool is being designed to comply with the new…
Op risk charge up for grabs again?
The charge for operational risk may be altered in the upcoming third consultation paper (CP3) from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, due out in May.
Debate and controversy mark Op Risk 2003 events
Delegates at the fifth annual Operational Risk and Risk magazine operational risk conferences in London and New York this March were treated to what one speaker described as a "smorgasboard" of discussions on the subject. Attendees could choose from…
Berating the raters
Last year the rating agencies were slammed in certain quarters for reacting too slowly to market events; this year, there are complaints that the agencies have overcompensated by reacting too fast. So what level of responsiveness will satisfy the bond…
Associations send repo VAR protest to Basel Committee
US and UK industry associations have sent a joint letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision expressing their "disappointment" that the multipliers for portfolio value-at-risk modelling of repo counterparty exposure will not be altered in the…
For love nor money
Salaries
Taking it slow
Basel Accord
Op risk charge up for grabs again?
REGULATORY UPDATE
Banks set to define op risk modelling for regulators at May conference
IMPLEMENTATION OUTLOOK
Debate and controversy mark Op Risk 2003 events
CONFERENCE COVERAGE
Regulatory briefs
REGULATORY UPDATE
Regulatory revisions make corporate goverance top priority
IMPLEMENTATION OUTLOOK
Modelling the unthinkable
DATABASES AND MODELLING
Job moves
People
Derivatives disclosure calls mount
Cover story
S&P and RDB launch SME CreditModel in Japan
Standard and Poor's (S&P) Risk Solutions and the Risk Data Bank of Japan (RDB), a credit risk data provider, have launched a new advanced default probability model that assesses the creditworthiness of small and medium-sized (SME) Japanese enterprises.