En mi opinión, sommelier no es un título, es un oficio. No se aprende, se vive... Un sommelier es un experto en vinos, él conoce de variedades y sabe cuál se adapta a cada menú. A lo largo del tiempo el concepto de sommelier evolucionó y se aplica a otros
Para gestionar apropiadamente una cartera de créditos y realizar una colocación adecuada de los recursos, las entidades financieras se ven en la necesidad de medir correctamente el riesgo de crédito. Particularmente en Argentina, la comunicación “A” 5398 del Banco Central de la República Argentina establece los lineamientos para la gestión
SAS Expected Credit Loss es la plataforma integral y modular de SAS que permite atender los requerimientos de IFRS 9: desde la gestión de datos, el modelado y la estimación del deterioro hasta la previsión, la contabilidad y la generación de informes. Adicionalmente, ayuda a las organizaciones a implementar una
EBA-Stresstest, TRIM-Initiative – es gibt 2018 mehr denn je dringende Gründe für die Banken, sich konsequent datenorientiert und analytisch aufzustellen und so vom Gejagten der Aufsicht zum Jäger nach mehr Wertschöpfung zu werden. Alle Banken wissen das. Die schlechte Nachricht: Die wenigsten Institute widmen sich diesem Thema ohne Wenn und
Regulierung, Kostendruck und technologische Weiterentwicklung – ist abwarten und Tee trinken die bessere Strategie für die Banken, als die Ärmel hochzukrempeln und loszulegen, nur, weil die Regulierung mal wieder hustet? Wie gehen Institute mit den immerwährenden neuen Regulierungen um? Wie sieht es in der Praxis aus, sind Basel, IFRS oder
Wenn es darum geht, mit Daten zu arbeiten, dann ist der klassische SAS Datastep eines der wirksamsten Werkzeuge, das uns zur Verfügung steht. Es ist sehr einfach, mithilfe von Datenauswahl, Formeln und Bedingungen im Datastep sowie in spezifischen SAS Prozeduren zu Ergebnissen zu kommen. Hieraus sind in der Praxis umfangreiche
Artificial intelligence. Big data. Cognitive computing. These buzzwords are the ABCs of today’s marketplace. In a recent interview at SAS® Global Forum, I discussed the unprecedented pace of change that we’re seeing in the market. It’s creating what I like to call an analytics economy. In this economy, analytics –
Manchmal ist abwarten und Tee trinken zwar genau die richtige Strategie, aber nicht in Sachen IFRS 17. Hier können und dürfen sich die Versicherer eine solche Haltung nicht mehr leisten. Warum nicht? Weil die Aufsicht spätestens 2021 viele neue Regularien umgesetzt sehen will. Und die sind sehr komplex in ihren operativen
Dentro de toda compañía la búsqueda del éxito es una constante, sin embargo, para alcanzarlo el primer paso es minimizar y de ser posible desaparecer todos los factores de riesgo que puedan ponerlo en peligro, por ejemplo, el fraude. Diversos son los factores que pueden dar paso a la presencia
Versicherungen stehen massiv unter Druck. Negative Zinsen und ein hoher regulatorischer Druck führen auch nicht gerade zu Euphorie (versicherungswirtschaft-heute.de). Die Branche klagt, all das sei operativ gar nicht zu schaffen. Was tun? Niedrigzinsumfeld ändern? Geht nicht. Regulatorik beeinflussen? Geht nur partiell. Also bleibt nur, an Effizienz und Automatisierung von Prozessen
Formulare sind fester Bestandteil unseres Alltags. Bereits bei der Geburt werden wir datums-, geschlechts-, gewichts- und größentechnisch erfasst – sei es auf Papier oder elektronisch. Und das zieht sich durch unser ganzes weiteres Leben. Für unsere Kinder müssen wir Formulare zur Aufnahme im Kindergarten, in der Grundschule oder in der
“Los que busquen saber cuándo podría darse la próxima crisis financiera deberían ponerse un recordatorio para el 1 de enero de 2018”. Así empieza un artículo elaborado por la agencia de noticias Bloomberg y publicado este año en Portafolio. El texto busca llamar la atención en torno a la importancia
Más allá de entender el riesgo como un potencial de pérdida, su definición varía ampliamente dependiendo de la industria y de muchos otros factores. Sin embargo, lo que sí es un común denominador es la necesidad de captar cómo se pueden identificar y aprovechar las oportunidades sin poner en riesgo
This is the first out of a series of two blog articles in which I will attempt to discuss the importance of the execution of the principles of the BCBS 239 in the Banks. I feel that a Bank’s risk management department is like a radar on a ship. It
Year-end outlooks from most analysts project the low-price environment in the oil market will continue for most of next year, but some pundits emphasize that the market has bottomed out and suggest recovery, though gradual, may be seen if increasing demand outpaces supply growth and sops up some of the
I have a short attention span. So, imagine my delight when a colleague of mine introduced me to theSkimm. If you are not familiar, theSkimm takes the top news stories of the day and summarizes them quickly, in ways that are easy to understand – and often linked to pop
Times have changed. As the oil industry shutters and sheds investments that made sense during the two-year period in which oil rode comfortably above $90, the market is establishing a new equilibrium at $40/barrel. This despite the fact that the Baker Hughes domestic rig count is down 64 percent. It’s
Though crude oil prices edged up last week, the market remains well below VirtualOil’s original $50 strike price, meaning the hypothetical portfolio’s production is shut in in the spot market again. Oversupply continues while China GDP forecasted growth is slowing. Given the market outlook, the VirtualOil board has decided to
Going Beyond Regulatory-Mandated Tests to Achieve True Risk Management I regularly hear banking customers talk about ‘sweating their assets’ - leveraging their substantial investments in expanded teams of risk analysts, re-engineered processes and new risk systems for Basel II and III compliance – to gain better insights into their business.
Stress testing is not new to the risk world but has been a major focus since the GFC (Global Financial Crisis). For a number of years now, stress testing has helped analytical specialists quantify various aspects of potential loss. What is new is the introduction of regulatory stress tests which
I had the opportunity to moderate a roundtable discussion on risk management at the International Institute for Analytics’ (IIA) winter symposium in Orlando earlier this month. I set the stage for the session with a brief overview of my favorite risk approach, “Competing on Value”, by Mack Hannan and Peter
The National Academy of Engineering identified fourteen "Grand Challenges for Engineering" that must be addressed in order to achieve a sustainable, economically robust, and politically stable future. (see the full list here) The challenges are a call-to-action for solutions to some of the most pressing issues in the 21st century:
I worked at the General Dynamics (now Lockheed-Martin) F-16 jet fighter plant in Fort Worth, Texas, during the mid-1980’s, where they subsequently manufactured the F-22 and now the F-35. My tenure there spanned the era of the $400 hammer and $700 toilet seat scandals in the military procurement world. While
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. If we’ve heard it once we’ve heard it a thousand times. I even wrote one of my early posts on this topic (“When metrics collide”). Consultants, analysts, academics and other thought leaders have examined and questioned its veracity, but still the consensus seems to be that
… and any fool will mind it”. ~ Henry David Thoreau. The EPA was in my neighborhood several weeks ago testing well water - never a good sign. It was determined that the subdivision just north and upstream of us had once been the site of a farm contaminated by
During a recent presentation on performance management I had an audience member ask me if perhaps I had minored in cynicism along with my degree in finance. I replied that, with the science, psychology and philosophy I’d taken, I probably had minored in skepticism, but that the cynicism came later,
I asked a Nuclear Engineering Professor friend of mine, after the Fukushima power plant disaster of March 2011, whether that incident would have a positive or a negative impact on his industry. His response was that it would have a short-term positive impact as a result of publicity generating a
In this Innovation Inspiration, a SAS user has developed the insurance rating plans for a country using predictive modeling. How exciting! Additionally, the system adjusts based upon actual experience. This is quite the accomplishment given the complexity of the ratemaking for even a small geographical territory. The comments section reveal the identity of this innovator. Check it out.
When you begin your career your most important skills are your hard, technical skills; the finance and accounting, the statistics and economics, the physics and chemistry, the engineering and calculus. But as I tell my business school mentees, as your career progresses, the emphasis changes such that much sooner than
“When I started using predictive analytics in 1991, I had a desktop computer with a 600 megabyte hard drive running SAS® 5.0 something,” said Olivia Rud, respected business intelligence thought leader and author of Data Mining Cookbook: Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk and Customer Relationship Management. Technology has vastly improved
