Stress-testing
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…
Sponsored statement: Moody's Analytics
The challenges and opportunities of implementing Basel III
Sponsored statement: Moody's Analytics
The new path to shareholder value
Sponsored Q&A: Moody's Analytics
Stress-testing scrutiny – The leading edge in risk management
Stress testing with fully flexible causal inputs
Stress testing with fully flexible causal inputs
Credit Risk USA: Real estate, rates and bank competition a concern, says OCC
Deputy comptroller gives sneak-preview of possible systemic threats that will be highlighted in a forthcoming OCC report
Stress test struggle: separating liquidity and market risks
Stress test struggle
Stress testing with fully flexible causal inputs
Stress testing with fully flexible causal inputs