Risk Management
325 white papers and resources
Using collateral management to address credit risk issues
Omgeo outlines the challenges being faced by collateral managers since the collapse of Lehman Brothers 12 months ago, and how these challenges to standardisation and automation can bring the collateralising community together.
How to Manage Liquidity Risk
Effective management of liquidity risk is more critical now than ever before. The consequences of failure are not simply lower profits: they are far-reaching and highly destructive. This article discusses how this risk can be controlled and turned into a strength for financial institutions.
Credit Charging in the Trading Book
In this white paper, SunGard examines the scope of credit charging in the trading book, as well as the long term business and technological implications of the increased reliance on such a charge.
Toward a stable and dynamic insurance future
This white paper, from the IBM institue for Business Value, looks at the increasingly integrated financial world - in a world where insurers are major investors, and banks offer insurance, this research piece poses the question 'where now?' for insurers.
Wrong Way Risk
Dan Travers and Jean-Marc Schwob explain how a credit risk system that combines numerical analysis with risk sensitivities can help risk managers to detect ‘wrong-way risk’ and highlight potential hot spots in their credit portfolios.
The role of scorecards & dashboards in strategy execution
Ultimately, for executing business strategy, dashboards and scorecards are complementary tools. Dashboards typically help you to understand and manage tactical operations while scorecards help you to understand and manage strategy.
Anticipating and Mitigating Catastrophic Risk
This white paper provides a market perspective on the limitations of the standard methodologies and introduces a new analysis to anticipate and mitigate the effects of cataclysmic events.
Strategic risk taking
Better communication and a transparent structure can give the risk department the necessary level of control to effectively manage trading risk yet also enhance profit, elevating the risk management function to one of crucial, strategic importance.
Ways in which a firm can prepare for a major default in the market
Over the last week, seismic events have fundamentally altered the capital markets landscape. Weary eyed risk professionals have spent 15 hour days answering a multitude of management concerns.
Case Study: Cleaning up corporate actions
Having completed a thorough review of the Corporate Actions market place Sydbank selected SmartStream’s TLM® Corporate Actions to automate their complete Event Management process.