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Visualizing stress testing risk scenarios
Since the financial crisis, banking regulators have started to use stress testing as a way to examine how banks will manage under adverse conditions. The idea is to ensure that banks hold enough capital to survive economic shocks. The European Banking Authority published its draft stress-testing methodology for 2018 back
Model risk management in an increasingly complex world
Like stress testing, model risk management is one of the current ‘hot topics’ in banking. Discussed extensively at a recent risk executive roundtable in Amsterdam, it is clear that the issue is exercising minds to a considerable degree. What’s more, it is also only likely to become more important in
Gli impatti di IFRS 17: è tempo di affrontarli
Quest’articolo è stato tradotto e integrato dal post originale di Lee Thorpe È un cambiamento fondamentale quello a cui le compagnie assicurativa stanno andando incontro. L’IFRS 17 sarà introdotto dallo IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) a partire dal 2020 e trasformerà la modalità di costruzione dei bilanci. Coerentemente con gli
Banking in 2018: Plus ça change
Another year’s over, a new one’s just begun. And it’s time to answer that most crucial of questions: ‘What does 2018 hold in-store for EMEA banking?’. Unless I’m missing something obvious, all the signs point to the coming 12 months being characterised by the usual ‘evolution not revolution’, and anybody
Digitization of risk management
Since the financial crisis, risk management in banks has grown in importance, and therefore so has the need for digitization. Regulations have called for stronger risk management of business processes. The first direct requirements for capital requirements and liquidity management were introduced in Basel III, but this has continued since.
Why stress testing continues to be a hot risk button
Stress testing is one of the hot topics of the moment for risk management in banking. A ‘stress test’ is an analysis designed to check whether the bank is holding enough capital to be able to manage a rapid downturn. It is, basically, a way to test the resilience of
Regulieren wir uns um Kopf und Kragen? (Stresstest, TRIM)
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
Was bringt die Zukunft? Auswertung von Risiko-Szenario-Pfaden
Die Abbildung einer möglichen zukünftigen Situation ist eine Kernaufgabe des Risiko-Managements. Dazu werden unterschiedlich komplexe Modelle mit möglichen Szenarien durchgerechnet. Hierbei erhält man pro Szenario und Vorhersage-Zeitpunkt ein Ergebnis. Bei mehrperiodischen Vorhersagen (z. B. bei Kredit-Portfolien oder Lebensversicherungen) gibt es pro Szenario einen Ergebnis-Pfad. Im Folgenden zeige ich, wie man mit
EBA Stress Testing 2018: How the inclusion of IFRS 9 is impacting the need for change to the Stress Testing Framework of Banks
A bank stress test is the analysis conducted under unfavorable economic scenarios designed to determine whether a bank has enough capital to withstand the impact of adverse developments. Especially in the years since the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, it has been actively promoted by authorities and regulators as
8 key elements for a solid model governance framework
In recent years, widespread use of sophisticated mathematical, statistical and deterministic models has allowed financial institutions to make strategic decisions with a new level of knowledge. At the same time, these models have led them towards additional needs: quantifying, measuring and managing model risk. On top of that, regulators have
Targeted Review of Internal Models - TRIM - The Foundation of Model Risk Management Regulation
In my previous article I reviewed the current state of model risk awareness in the financial services industry by providing an overview of the EU regulatory regime related to Model Risk Management framework, as well as introducing some major challenges that exist in developing a Model Risk Management system. This
EBA Stress Testing 2018: How the inclusion of IFRS 9 is impacting the need for change to the Stress Testing Framework of Banks
A bank stress test is the analysis conducted under unfavorable economic scenarios designed to determine whether a bank has enough capital to withstand the impact of adverse developments. Especially in the years since the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, it has been actively promoted by authorities and regulators as
How Nigeria is accelerating its banking industry transformation
The challenges for banking in emerging markets are similar to those elsewhere, but with fewer resources and structures available to address them. Key issues include expanding the market, and improving financial inclusion, to provide better access to banking services. To my mind, one of the most interesting aspects of the
The need for seamless risk and finance integration
The importance of risk management has always been clear in financial services, but it is growing in other industries, including energy and telecommunication companies. This importance is being amplified through increasing demand for risk and finance integration. New risk data architecture is needed to focus on the integration of time
Risikomodellierung: ein Blick unter die Motorhaube
Modelle im Risikomanagement sind essenziell. Sie helfen uns dabei, das Risiko eines Unterfangens auf Basis weniger Einflussgrößen vorherzusagen. Die Kunst der Modellierung besteht nun darin, die wichtigsten Faktoren zu bestimmen und einen komplexen Zusammenhang vereinfacht so abzubilden, dass die Aussagekraft relevant ist. Das heißt, modellbasierte Prognosen sollen möglichst nahe an
The unforeseen consequences of IFRS 17
Lee Thorpe, Head of Risk Business Solutions at SAS UK & Ireland, explores the challenges that the new international financial reporting standard (IFRS) 17 will introduce. A fundamental change is coming to insurance. The new accounting standard, IFRS 17, will be introduced by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in
Could your company survive a fake news attack?
Even as we come to terms with the increasing presence of fake news in the political landscape, we need to consider the vulnerability of companies, brands and employees to the same phenomenon. Social media across all channels have become an accelerator to enable unverified, and unverifiable, claims to travel far
Challenges on a CRO's agenda - get some answers in Madrid
The CRO’s agenda is more crowded than ever, especially right after the summer time looking towards the end of the actual and the preparations for the new year. Regulators, auditors, boards and investors continue increasing the pressure on financial institutions. In addition to the already known challenges coming from competition,
Neue Prozess-Infrastruktur für die Renaissance des Datasteps
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
Transparenz und Automatisierung braucht das Risikomanagement
Am 20. Juni trafen sich in Wien 30 Vertreter von Banken, um neue Herausforderungen an Infrastrukturen von Banken zu diskutieren. Dr. Thomas Moosbrucker, Deloitte Deutschland, beleuchtete in dem ersten Vortrag die Herausforderungen von TRIM (Target Review of Internal Models). Seiner Meinung nach wird uns TRIM, welches das Vertrauen in die
Fraudsters love digital
Anyone who believes that digitization has made the issue of insurance fraud go away is unfortunately wrong. One in ten reported damages and claims are still invented or manipulated. The cost: at least €5 billion per year in Germany alone for property and casualty insurance. In other words, not even including
The data governance path to AnaCredit
Many of the regulations coming into effect after 2010, are the result of the financial crisis that has significantly re-shaped the financial industry worldwide and especially in Europe. One of the major projects that has been undertaken by the statistics team of the ECB, launched in 2011, is the setup
8 elementi chiave di un framework robusto per la Model Governance
Negli ultimi anni l'uso sempre più diffuso di sofisticati modelli matematici, statistici e deterministici ha consentito alle istituzioni finanziarie di prendere decisioni strategiche, avendo a disposizione un nuovo livello di conoscenza. Nel contempo ha, però, condotto verso una nuova necessità: quantificare, misurare e gestire il rischio legato ai modelli utilizzati.
Machine Learning allein reicht nicht, der menschliche Verstand ist weiterhin gefragt
Science-Fiction-Autoren sind seit Langem fasziniert von der Vorstellung, dass Roboter die Weltherrschaft übernehmen könnten. Und sie überlegen, was man tun könnte, um die Welt vor dieser Machtübernahme zu bewahren. Doch diese Vorstellung geht weit an der Realität vorbei. Tatsächlich wissen wir heute: Maschinen – und Machine Learning – funktionieren am
Modelos de Riesgo, impacto en los negocios
La industria financiera, ha desarrollado una alta dependencia en la analítica predictiva para alcanzar los objetivos de negocio y cumplir con temas regulatorios y de mejores prácticas. Este modelado toca virtualmente a cada área que tiene poder de decisión y monitoreo en la Entidad, desde el perfil de cliente objetivo,
Model Risk Regulatory Framework: challenges to managing model risk
At this point in time, Model Risk Management stands at the forefront of risk management for many of today’s financial services organizations. The majority of financial institutions are in the process of developing Model Risk Management frameworks to mitigate model risk and to become more comfortable with their models. However,
Machine learning for risk: more changes ahead
Approaches to risk assessment and management are changing. There has been a radical alteration in the nature of risk in many sectors, in that the biggest threat that many companies now face is from disruption of their business model by start-ups. This has meant that traditional approaches to risk—the appointment
Hand aufs Herz: Kann Ihre Risikobetrachtung mit den Marktveränderungen Schritt halten?
Ich möchte Sie etwas fragen? Sehen Sie Risikomanagement als: alleinige Aufgabe des Chief Risk Officer, als Pflichtübung, die jede Menge Papierkram – aber keine wirklichen Vorteile – bringt; oder Verantwortung von allen im Unternehmen und eine Chance, eine sichere Umgebung für heikle Geschäftsentscheidungen zu schaffen? Natürlich sind diese beiden Auffassungen
Can citizen data scientists improve risk management?
The rise of citizen data scientists—business users who are able to do at least some of their own analytics—has been touted as many things. Some have suggested that it is a very good way to address shortages of dedicated data scientists. Others, more cynically, have suggested that it is simply