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The changing face of credit portfolio management at banks
Faced with huge increases in capital charges in the coming months, banks will turn to credit portfolio management to support business decisions on origination, capital allocation and risk transfer
Basel IV and the butterfly effect: a lesson in unintended consequences
This white paper delves into the impact of Basel III/Basel IV on the banking industry, explaining the increase in regulatory capital, reduction of free capital and decrease in profitability.
Digital banks: harnessing technology to deliver growth
In this white paper report, chief risk officers and chief technology officers at digital banks discuss their growth goals and key priorities over the next few years. They detail their use of credit risk analytics and talk about the choices they make in building a technology stack that enables them…
Using portfolio management to steer your way through foggy market conditions
Post-pandemic uncertainties, market consolidations, increasingly complex portfolio compositions, margin compressions, new competitors interest rate rises. Portfolio managers are operating in foggy conditions. Sophisticated portfolio analytics help to provide insights into concentration risks at…
Active credit portfolio management: audiocast
In this Risk.net audiocast, Zoi Fletcher speaks to Biagio Giacalone and Alexis Hamar about how active credit portfolio management can be the linchpin of improved risk/reward ratios and how the efficient use of capital drives banks’ overall profitability. The participants were speaking in a personal…
Regulatory Compliance as a Service
This paper outlines the benefits of migrating regulatory compliance and regulatory reporting into the cloud
Operational resilience in the time of COVID-19: SaaS to the rescue
This paper addresses the implications of the coronavirus on banks in terms of regulatory reporting and illustrates how software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology can provide solutions.
Best Practices for SaaS Security
This white paper gives an overview of the security concerns about Software as a Service (SaaS) in the banking and financial services sector and highlights best practices for technology, business culture, governance, and compliance.
Regtech – Enabler of the shift from compliance to performance
This white paper examines the results of a recent Risk.net RegTech survey and explores how banks can get off the compliance treadmill and focus on building their business. It further looks at how RegTech is playing a role in helping them to do just that.
Liquidity risk - Some practical challenges remain, but this is the time to automate & integrate
This white paper explores why banks must integrate the management of liquidity and interest rate risks under ALM, and move toward true risk-adjusted pricing by implementing the technology platforms that support such solutions.
Modelling Stressed Losses Given Default (LGD's) for Macroeconomic Scenarios
This white paper explores a validated model for stressed losses given default (LGD’s). It further provides a practical solution for banks and other financial institutions that require public firm LGD estimates for risk management and compliance purposes.
A Summary of BCBS Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book Directive
This white paper summarizes the core Pillar 2 approach of Interest Rate in the Banking Book (IRRBB), and the alternative Pillar 1 approach of IRRBB used by certain banks in a few situations. It also includes a practical approach to implementing IRRBB.
The IFRS 9 Impairment Model and its Interaction with the Basel Framework
This white paper explores the growing interaction between risk management and accounting in relation to credit risk modelling approaches, capital ratios, and provisions calculations, as well as data management and governance in preparation for IFRS 9.
Maximizing Stress Testing Investment: Strategic Capital Analysis
This white paper focuses on initiatives to enhance regulatory compliance and explores how organisations can use new tools to expand key performance metric forecasting under various economic conditions, to guide and optimize business strategy.
Are Internal Credit Models for Structured Securities Going Away? An Analysis of the Recent Basel Consultative Document
This white paper focuses on the proposed changes and their implications for calculating credit risk capital, as well as the proposal’s integration with Basel’s other recent revisions and upcoming initiatives. The paper also discusses what next steps are expected with regard to this proposal.
Basel III Standardized Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR): Adoption and Implementation Status
This white paper provides a brief introduction to the new standardized approach for measuring counterparty credit risk, its expected benefits, and its actual impacts. The paper further details the potential difficulties associated with its implementation and the current status of its adoption in…
New Impairment Model: Governance Considerations
This white paper will review some of the most important model governance considerations, including how to approach new modeling needs, key differences between models for CECL and models for AIRB and DFAST, and the differing expectations for less complex banks.
CECL’s Implications for Bank Profi tability, System Stability, and Economic Growth
This white paper considers the adoption of CECL with an eye toward assessing its potential benefits – and risks – to the financial system and the broader economy. The paper will further provide suggestions on how the transition to CECL can be managed smoothly for minimal economic impact.
IFRS 9 Analytical and Reporting Solutions for Structured Finance
This white paper will set out the specific challenges that investors in structured finance face and guidelines for effective solutions to help address these challenges.
Probability-Weighted Outcomes Under IFRS 9: A Macroeconomic Approach
This white paper explores how to develop a framework that addresses the probability-weighted aspects of IFRS 9 and answers questions about the practical use of alternative scenarios.
Preparing for The New Impairment Requirements: Practitioner’s View
This white paper discusses the new standards that have been set forth by the FASB and explores how banks should align with the new CECL impairment standards.
Implementing an IFRS 9 Solution: Challenges Faced by Financial Institutions
This white paper provides an overview of the new standard and analyses the major challenges financial institutions will face in ensuring compliance.
Reading the Tea Leaves of Recent Regulatory Guidance
This white paper will explore the Federal Reserve’s “Guidance on Supervisory Assessment of Capital Planning and Positions” (SR 15-18 and SR 15-19). The paper further examines the BCBS’s “Guidance on Credit Risk and Accounting for Expected Credit Losses”.
Revising the Playbook: Using a Risk Appetite Framework to Align Strategy and Risk
This white paper provides an in-depth analysis in risk appetite and provides an overview of some common problems organizations face. It introduces a solution to develop an integrated, transparent, measurable, and actionable Risk Appetite Framework.
Extract long term benefit from Pillar III Reporting Data
This white paper addresses why insurers should view the data collated for Pillar III reporting as an essential information source for all strategic risk and capital decision-making within their organizations.
Aligning Risk Appetite with Strategic Decision Making
This white paper examines how the economic capital framework can be used as a component of an integrated capital management framework to make financial risk management decisions and manage the shortcomings of regulatory capital.
The Emergence of a New Banking Model
This white paper discusses how banks should prepare for a new business ecosystem driven by the financial technology revolution. Furthermore it discusses ways in which the industry can adapt to the regular disruptions it faces by adopting new banking models.
AnaCredit Gives Banks an Opportunity to Improve Data Management, but Challenges Remain
This white paper explores the requirements of AnaCredit and discusses key challenges such as missing data, aggregating information and establishing a robust reporting system.
An Enhanced Liquidity Risk Management Framework for Banks
This white paper shows the advantages of including internal behavioural models into an institution’s liquidity risk management practices to enhance returns and exploit competitive advantages related to their balance sheet composition, funding structure, and business model.
Multi-Period Stochastic Scenario Generation
This white paper gives a step-by-step breakdown of the development of a dynamic framework for stochastic scenario generation that allows risk managers and economists to build multi-period environments, integrating conditional credit and market risk modelling.
The Benefits of Modernizing the Commercial Credit Decisioning Process
This white paper explains the benefits of an online decision system to deliver higher returns on risk while making regulatory compliance easier and cheaper.
IFRS 9 Will Significantly Impact Banks’ Provisions and Financial Statements
This white paper gives practitioners a snapshot of the “current state” of the industry, while assessing the challenges banks face while transitioning to International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9). It also includes a series of comments on best practices and industry trends.
Optimizing the Capital Ratio under Basel III
Basel III stresses the integration between liquidity and credit risk, and the need to manage both from an enterprise-wide risk-management context. This demands a new enterprise-wide organization of tasks, processes, and calculation infrastructure, specifically in terms of systemsintegration, data…
Learn the Fundamentals of Managing Liquidity Under US Basel III Webinar
The developments in liquidity management regulations present significant challenges to organizations covered by US Basel III. Watch this webinar, to understand: The key aspects of the U.S. Basel III liquidity regulations. The critical challenges in implementing the liquidity elements of U.S. Basel…
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.
Adapting Financial Institutions’ Liquidity Risk Management Framework to the New Regulatory Environment
This whitepaper reviews the fundamental changes of Liquidity Risk Management under Basel III. It discusses how institutions can meet the regulatory requirements on liquidity risk management by enhancing their liquidity risk analytics, funds transfer pricing methodologies, liquidity stress testing…
Using accounting standards to manage risk in banks
This white paper examines new accounting standards set out by two of the main accounting standards boards. It details how the standards can help increase efficiency, detect credit deterioration earlier and ultimately improve the performance of risk management inside a bank.