Risk Management
325 white papers and resources
Five key trends in risk management
Financial institutions remaining competitive within a volatile economy depends on their capacity to manage risk. This white paper identifies five key risk management solutions that financial services organisations should adopt to aid their decision making process and to limit their risk exposure.
How to use operational governance to create sustainable business value
Governance, risk & compliance programmes evolve to keep pace with changes in business conditions, market opportunities and regulatory requirements. Under review is how operational governance can be key to GRC initiatives in helping enterprises meet their goals and protect them from potential risks.
Meeting the Solvency II operational risk challenge
Solvency II introduces a new EU-wide regulatory approach to determine capital adequacy for meeting an insurer’s true risks. Due to come into force in 2012, Solvency II promises a more sophisticated ‘risk-based’ form of supervision that will require many insurers to augment their risk management…
Recalibration machine
A revolution is under way in the market of contingent claims, the consequences of which are yet to be learned. Trilemma, a new technology vendor, addresses the shift in the pricing of these claims from a probability theory to a recalibration machine. It compares this shift to the scientific…
Risk Model Validation
Senior management are expected to make crucial business decisions using complex risk models. Controversial discussions concerning the use of risk models during the financial crisis, and the new regulatory framework, have highlighted the need for a consistent approach, and the dangers that exist.
Longevity Risk
Around the world, a structural shift in demographics is taking place: people are living longer. While an increasing number of people look forward to retirement the implication for firms, funds and governments with hundreds of billions of dollars in defined-benefit pension scheme liabilities is…
MetLife: A global innovator in variable annuity risk management
Andrew Rallis, MetLife’s senior vice president and global head of asset/liability management, charts the insurer’s recent history of success, and expounds on their sophisticated IT platform and innovative new products, and how MetLife plans to meet the growing worldwide demand for retirement…
Ignoring new security challenges: The merging of business and social enviroments
This white paper demonstrates that the consumerisation of IT can bring positive benefits to a business. However, we cannot ignore the new security challenges that this merging of business and social environments creates.
Liquidity – a new asset class? New opportunities for insurance and pension funds
Philip Turner, RBS Global Banking & Markets’ (GBM) head of strategic product marketing, provides an insight into how the liquidity crisis has created significant opportunities for insurers and pension funds to monetise the liquidity premium associated with their asset and liability mismatch, while…
Practices and emerging trends in asset liability management and liquidity risk
Asset Liability Management (ALM) plays a critical role in weaving together the different business lines in a financial institution. Managing liquidity and the balance sheet are crucial to the existence of a financial institution and sustenance of its operations. It is also essential for seamless…