Risk
UniCredit sheds €10.5 billion in toxic loans
Net write-downs on all loans fell to €496 million in the quarter, down from €835 million in December, an improvement of 40%, as a result of improved asset quality
Smoothing algorithms by constrained maximum likelihood: methodologies and implementations for Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress testing and International Financial Reporting Standard 9 expected credit loss estimation
In this paper, the author proposes smoothing algorithms that are based on constrained maximum likelihood for rating-level PD and for rating migration probability.
NAB model change boosts mortgage RWAs
Residential mortgage RWAs leap A$10.6 billion
Credit Suisse bolsters liquidity buffers
LCR reinforced in response to choppy markets
BP net derivative assets top $1.5 billion
Hedging instruments fair values rise while oil prices surge
Sponsored video: Bethanie Castelnuovo, SCB
Bethanie Castelnuovo, chief financial officer at SCB, gives her reaction to SCB’s wins at the Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2018 and her thoughts on the organisation's business outlook.
UBS liquidity coverage ratio shrinks after regulatory change
The rule change led to higher net cash outflows at the bank, which jumped 5.5% to Sfr135 billion in March
Credit Suisse sheds $11bn in op risk RWAs
Regulator allowed Swiss bank to cut op risk exposure from defunct business
Santander reaps capital benefit with close of toxic asset sale
The bank aims to have CET1 above 11% by end-2018
UBS warns of 6% increase in credit RWAs in 2018
The bank's credit RWAs continue upward trend
Monitoring transmission of systemic risk: application of partial least squares structural equation modeling in financial stress testing
This paper illustrates how the transmission of systemic risk from shadow banking to the regulated banking sector can be modeled using partial least squares structural equation modeling in an effort to help regulators better monitor and manage contagion.
BAML approaches Collins floor
The gap between RWAs calculated under the two approaches continues to shrink
News-sentiment networks as a company risk indicator
This paper defines an algorithm for measuring sentiment-based network risk, to understand the relationship between news sentiment and company stock price movements, and to better understand connectivity among companies.
The new world of risk analytics
Webinar: SAS
Sponsored video: Thomas Lee, Vivo Security
Thomas Lee, chief executive and co-founder of Vivo Security – a start-up firm based in Silicon Valley and sponsors at OpRisk North America – talks about how special the banking industry is to Vivo Security and why its approach to model risk management…
Regtech – Enabler of the shift from compliance to performance
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UBS shrugs off VAR exceptions
The Swiss bank has crunched down its market RWAs to Sfr12.3 billion
Fed’s risk proposal puts banks on the defensive
New supervisory guidance will make business heads responsible for risk management
Advancing on all fronts
Sompo Global Weather continues to expand its offering with timely, tailored weather risk solutions designed to service a growing global audience and diversification into new sectors supplying responsive solutions
Ensuring reliability in a rapidly changing energy landscape
Igor Koprivnikar, member of the management board at Gen-i, discusses what sets the organisation apart as the top power dealer in eastern Europe, the benefits that a global portfolio can bring for clients in regional European markets, and how strong…
Regulatory merger keeps China on course for deleveraging
Combination of banking and insurance regulators offers opportunity to co-ordinate debt reduction measures
Next-generation GRC
Webinar: Nasdaq BWise
Mostly prior-free asset allocation
This paper develops a prior-free version of Harry Markowitz’s efficient portfolio theory, which allows the decision maker to express their preferences with regard to risk and reward, even though they are unable to express a prior over potentially…
Valuing streams of risky cashflows with risk-value models
Based on risk-value models this paper introduces a multi-period approach to the valuation of streams of risky cash flows.