Risk Systems
291 white papers and resources
Risk systems
Liquidity risk management: assessing and planning for adverse events
This paper takes a close look at the factors involved in the recent crisis and the patterns that resulted in widespread liquidity problems. It also points to specific vulnerabilities faced by financial institutions currently, and highlights best practices for liquidity risk management. Findings…
Deriving Greater Enterprise-wide Risk Insight from Stronger Data Quality Management
The main issues associated with data quality in banking demonstrate that data silos continue to be the main cause of data quality issues. The paper outlines best practices banks can leverage to improve data accuracy, quality, and access across the organization.
Market Risk Analytics: Where Are We Now?
This report, based on a survey of 31 major banks, explores the current state of market risk analytics across the banking sector. It looks at the progress being made in the implementation of new market risk frameworks and infrastructure and the key challenges facing banks in facilitating these…
Lead into Gold: How Smart Cubes Are Poised to Deliver The Fast Track to Enhanced Risk Management and Compliance
Financial institutions everywhere are facing major data management challenges as they strive to meet emerging regulatory requirements. Broad regulations like FINREP, COREP and MiFID II are all placing new reporting demands on banks and other financial firms. At the same time, individual…
How is regulatory stress-testing shaping the future for banks?
Out of the shortcomings exposed in banks’ traditional risk managementprocesses during the recent global financial crisis, comes the critical need for improvement. Although the list of needed repairs is long and growing, one particular high-profile risk management requirement is subject to…
Toward active management of counterparty credit risk with CVA
Emerging from the credit crisis that began in 2007, many financialinstitutions recognize the need to better manage counterparty credit risk (CCR) and have begun to centralize the quantification, pricing and management of their CCR. This centralization often takes the form of a “CVA Trading Desk”…
EMIR Special Report August 2014
This special report explores lessons learned from the first EMIR reporting phase, which became effective on Feb. 12, and looks forward to the newest phase, exploring what the newly reported data will tell regulators about the bigger picture of the derivatives market in the European Union. We also…
Seeking Optimal ETF Execution in Electronic Markets
This paper, first published in the Journal of Trading, looks at how you can seek optimal ETF execution in electronic markets. Exchange-traded funds have been, since their inception, a revolutionary change for investors and those in the investing business. There are a few key characteristics of ETFs…
Webinar: GRC for better business performance
A dynamic regulatory climate and the increasing cost of governance failures continue to put pressure on banks and other financial institutions to overhaul and improve their overall approach to governance, risk management and compliance. But there continues to be a lack of best practices or…
Convergence, collaboration and culture: The evolution of governance, risk and compliance
Uncertain times and a volatile economic climate have contributed to an expanding focus on corporate governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) across all industries. While some companies have met their risk and compliance challenges head on with insightful business strategies and powerful…