Stress-testing
Eiopa tests insurers' resilience to sovereign stress
Firms to apply sovereign crisis and 'Japanification' scenarios
Stress tests prompt NPL rethink
Banks expected to sell NPLs to improve stress-test resilience
Portfolio construction and systematic trading with factor entropy pooling
Construction of large portfolios consistent with investors' views and stress test scenarios is a challenging task, considering the volume of information to be processed. Attilio Meucci, David Ardia and Marcello Colasante introduce a technique that…
Resist the rise of the risk management machines
Overreliance on modern risk management systems, and metrics such as value-at-risk, can blind firms to tectonic structural market shifts. To help alleviate this problem, the use of human judgement and intervention is required, argues Vincent Kaminski
Bank of England still undecided over stress test scenarios
Fixed scenarios "could be procyclical"
Institutional inertia on tail risk measurement
Institutional inertia is one of the abiding forces in human experience, especially in governmental institutions. Sadly, such inertia is likely to hinder much-needed revisions in the practice of financial risk management, argues David Rowe
Applied risk management series: Integrating stress tests with risk management
Stress testing is a vital part of successful risk management, but risk managers at energy trading firms frequently face obstacles in designing and implementing successful stress testing programmes. In this article, Carlos Blanco provides some advice on…
Finding relationships between macroeconomic variables and losses
Multivariate analysis is a powerful tool for finding significant relationships between business environment and risk losses
Fed set to raise bar for US stress tests
As US regulators prepare to introduce new stress-testing requirements for medium-sized banks, the Fed warns that the largest are still struggling to meet existing standards – and the intent of future stress tests is likely to be dramatically different
Fed points the finger at weak stress testing by US banks
Major US banks are failing on key risk management tasks, regulator says
The OCC’s Levonian on stress-testing
Stress-testing has become a vital tool for financial institutions and regulators, says the OCC’s senior deputy comptroller for economics
Risk management central to hedge fund capital raising, says survey
As more institutional investors opt for hedge funds, robust risk management is being seen as a central function needed in order to raise capital, according to a survey by Prmia and SunGard APT
OpRisk North America: Regulator warns industry to get implementation of Dodd-Frank right
Implementation of Dodd-Frank Act raises op risk concerns, conference hears
Energy firms increasingly using stress tests to cope with regulatory change
Utilities and other energy firms are working hard to refine and enhance the scenarios they use for stress testing. Given recent market events, the impact of regulatory change and large-scale liquidity crises are taking on an increasingly important role…
Revised LCR falls short on ending Basel III concerns over trade finance
The relaxation of Basel III’s liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) requirements have been a major boon to trade finance, a sector which expected to suffer badly from the new regulatory regime. But not all issues related to Basel III have been resolved
Fed promises dramatically tougher rules for non-US banks
Foreign banks in US must set up holding companies with ring-fenced capital
Testing to destruction
Reverse stress testing is set to become standard practice under Solvency II as part of the validation process for internal models, yet for most European insurers such tests are a new concept. Clive Davidson examines what can be learned from the UK, where…
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The challenges and opportunities of implementing Basel III
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