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Recent risk management articles
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IFRS 17: Waiting is not an optionIFRS 17 is a principles-based accounting standard for the future-oriented valuation of insurance contracts. Designed to increase financial transparency, IFRS 17 requires insurers to report in more detail on how insurance and reinsurance contracts affect their finances and risk.
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Scenario stress testing: Beyond regulatory complianceScenario stress testing offers banks a way to simulate responses to a financial crisis using a wide range of conditions and levels of severity.
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The analytical CRO and the risk aware CFOTo create a more risk-aware organization, the most important collaborative relationship for the CRO is with the CFO and the finance team. The CFO and CRO – as the executives responsible for budgeting and supervision – tend to get caught in the middle of competing objectives.
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frtb: a wait and see strategy could be riskyFRTB, fundamental review of the trading book, is a regulation that changes how banks analyze market risk in the trading book to address systemic challenges.
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Le Règlement général sur la protection des données : transformer la contrainte en opportunitéLe Règlement général sur la protection des données suscite des sentiments mitigés, mais Kalliopi Spyridaki explique comment en faire un avantage compétitif.
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IFRS 17 and Solvency II: Insurance regulation meets insurance accounting standardsIFRS and Solvency II encourage comparability and transparency from a regulatory and accounting perspective for insurers, but there are important differences.
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Credit risk management is the answerLending and loan volume is back up to pre-crisis levels. But banks are facing higher delinquencies as well. That's why improving credit risk management is crucial.
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IFRS 9 and CECL: The challenges of new financial standardsIFRS 9 and CECL will require banks to more accurately
predict expected credit losses (ECLs). This will require new credit loss models based on analytics.
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Model risk management: Vital to regulatory and business sustainabilitySloppy model risk management can lead to failure to gain regulatory approval for capital plans, financial loss, damage to a bank's reputation and loss of shareholder value. Learn how to improve model risk management by establishing controls and guidelines to measure and address model risk at every stage of the life cycle.
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Retail cyber risk toleranceManage your data assets just as you would any of your physical assets by putting security plans in place for any and all contingencies.
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Risk data aggregation: Transparency, controls and governance are needed for data quality and reportingFinancial institutions’ data aggregation and reporting techniques and systems are receiving increased attention both internally and externally. Find out how to take a comprehensive approach to BCBS principles and risk data aggregation and management.
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Risk data infrastructure: Staying afloat on the regulatory floodWhat are the challenges of a risk data infrastructure and how can they be addressed? Here's what you need to know to build an effective enterprise risk and finance reporting warehouse.
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Model risk management keeps banks ahead of the regulatorsRecent regulations require executives to know more about how their organization manages risk. David Rogers from SAS explains how to get started by understanding the models that drive decisions.
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Basel’s US history and what it means to community banksThe US Basel III Final Rule marks the first time that the US regulatory system is adjusted to the size of the bank. Tara Skinner talks through the history of Basel III and what institutions are impacted today.
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There's more to gain from regulations than just complianceThe things you are doing now to prepare for Solvency II implementation can benefit your business in many other ways. For instance, do you know which customers, regions or products are your most profitable? Do you know where you are leaking profits? Get the most from your compliance efforts.
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Finding a balance that's good for businessSanjiv Talwar, Head of Risk Capital and Stress Testing at the Bank of Montreal, talks with Tom Kimner and the Argyle Journal about the difficulties banks face with meeting regulatory requirements. He also shares his philosophy for approaching those difficulties - build a growth strategy based on the lessons learned from the regulatory exercises.
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Are you good at scoring?Credit scoring is the foundation for evaluating clients who apply for a loan (or other types of exposure for the bank). It is not unusual for it to take up to 12 months to build and deploy a new credit scoring model. Reforming the process will help minimize losses, increase earnings and reduce operational risk.
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Risk capital and lessons from the TitanicEconomic capital is that something extra that senior management needs for staying financially afloat in tough economic times. SAS uses the tale of the Titanic to describe risk capital risk management best practices.
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People, process, culture – and technologyData governance requires measurement and constant improvements of data quality. That’s a mountain of a job without clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Peyman Mestchian, Managing Partner at Chartis Research, and Tom Kimner, Head of Americas Risk at SAS, talk about data governance and the need for specialized departments, technology and skills.
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Data quality: The Achilles' heel of risk managementGiven the tightly regulated environment banks face today, the importance of data quality cannot be overstated. Beyond the obvious benefits of staying one step ahead of regulatory mandates, having accurate, integrated and transparent data will drive confident, proactive decisions to support a solid risk management foundation.
Risk Management: The Basics
No matter how your organization prioritizes risk, you need proven methodologies and best practices to help you establish a risk-aware culture, optimize capital and liquidity, and meet regulatory demands. High-performance risk analytics can ensure greater efficiency and transparency, and strike the right balance between short- and long-term strategies, so that you can confidently address changing regulatory requirements.
What is credit risk management?
The credit crunch that followed the global financial crisis put credit risk management practices in the spotlight. And they are about to take on an even more prominent role as banks brace for the impact of the new Basel III regulations, which will impose higher capital costs for credit risk.
Even though credit risk management has always been an essential bank function, better credit risk management is essential – and not just for compliance purposes. Learn more about how managing credit risk presents a huge opportunity for improving a bank’s overall performance.
What is liquidity risk?
Once upon a time, liquidity risk management got little more than lip service from banks. But the global financial crisis changed all that by exposing liquidity risk as the industry’s Achilles’ heel. Today, liquidity risk has become a daily part of the banking lexicon, as banks brace for sweeping regulatory changes surrounding liquidity. But is liquidity risk management something to be embraced or feared? Find out what the experts are saying about liquidity risk and the high-performance solutions that can help you manage it.
Learn more about liquidity risk
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