Credit risk
Credit portfolio manager of the year: JP Morgan
Risk awards 2012
Supervision not regulation, says SEB's Hansen
Rather than rushing to increase regulation and potentially creating compliance costs and regulatory risks, authorities should be getting involved at the ground level to improve supervision, says Lars Hansen, Swedish insurer SEB Life’s chief risk officer
Risk software survey 2011
Compliance is key
CDSs: lubricant or landmine?
Credit default swaps have allowed banks and investors to improve the management of their credit risk, but they may represent a lurking source of contagion in a crisis, argues David Rowe
Close-out convention tensions
Close-out convention tensions
Risk and compliance hiring in the Middle East is strengthening, say recruiters
Regulatory pressure and recognition of the importance of risk and compliance at firms is driving recruitment of executives from around the world into the Middle East
The risk-free conundrum
The risk-free conundrum
Getting CVA up and running
Getting CVA up and running
Eurozone debt crisis: facing up to the risks of political uncertainty
The risks of political uncertainty
Dangerous adaptation: the evolution of risk
Dangerous adaptation: the evolution of risk
FIA-Isda group runs rule over Sef credit check plans
The OTC market still does not know how to provide certainty that a trade will be cleared - but an FIA-Isda meeting in New York gave attendees a chance to look at what is on offer
Credit risk boundary events to be a focus for regulators
The Basel Committee's Sigor group will spend time on credit risk-related operational risk loss events at its upcoming October meeting in Frankfurt
Cost of control: balancing risk and expense
Cost of control
Credit Risk USA: Basel trading book regime attacked by dealers
CVA charge and Basel 2.5 rules incoherent and over-complicated, say dealers
BBVA given deadline to improve AMA model
BBVA has been given until December 2011 to make improvements to its AMA model by the Bank of Spain, or will not obtain the capital savings the AMA allows
Risk-managing the Middle East's revolutions
Risk-managing revolution
Bonds don’t always behave as their risk profile should dictate – Marty Fridson column
Right call, wrong outcome