Credit risk
Margin notes
Brett Humphreys explains how to measure and manage margin risk, an often-overlooked – yet often-significant – risk exposure
Making the grade
As credit risk is now a major concern in the energy industry, EPRM takes a look at CreditGrades, a risk measurement tool from risk analytics firm RiskMetrics
New dawn for loan portfolio management
The way institutions handle credit is changing. Charles Smithson compares the results of two surveys done in the past two years to discover how portfolio management has evolved.
Mixed signals
Introduction
New dawn for loan portfolio management
Credit risk survey
Canada’s shifting credit scene
Canadian banks
Testing rating accuracy
Cutting edge: Ratings validation
Enterprise-wide risk management: Knitting together bank risks
Thanks to recent events, bank risk managers are placing more emphasis on integrating counterparty and credit risk into other portions of their enterprise-wide risk management systems.
Loan portfolio value
Using a conditional independence framework, Oldrich Vasicek derives a useful limiting form for the portfolio loss distribution with a single systematic factor. He then derives a risk-neutral distribution suitable for traded portfolios, and shows how…
Loan portfolio value
Using a conditional independence framework, Oldrich Vasicek derives a useful limiting form for the portfolio loss distribution with a single systematic factor. He then derives a risk-neutral distribution suitable for traded portfolios, and shows how…
Unsystematic credit risk
Although Basel has shifted its treatment of unsystematic credit risk from the first, capital rules pillar (where it was called the 'granularity adjustment') to the second, supervisory pillar of the forthcoming Accord, this issue is of great practical…
Unsystematic credit risk
Although Basel has shifted its treatment of unsystematic credit risk from the first, capital rules pillar (where it was called the ‘granularity adjustment’) to the second, supervisory pillar of the forthcoming Accord, this issue is of great practical…
An overwhelming problem
Introduction
Fighting credit risk demons
Credit risk
Avoiding pro-cyclicality
Basel II and SMEs
The credit implosion
Introduction
The credit risk time bomb
Insurers
Realigning exposures
CDO restructuring
PFE: ahead of its time
Modelling
Reinventing the market
Cashflow CDOs
CDS: the quest for neutral pricing data
Price data services
The hire ground
Recruitment
The credit risk time bomb
Insurers remain very keen to both guarantee and invest in credit derivatives products, but key regulators are about to release reports indicating that risk transfer between the insurance and banking sectors might not be such a good idea.