13 Aug 2010
New regulation continues to be a top priority for banks with the regulators both here and in the US placing increasing scrutiny on bank’s risk management policies in an effort to avoid another financial crisis. A recent article in the FT highlights how the US regulators are clamping down even further, making banks perform tougher "stress test...
15 Apr 2010
VaR – a fantastically complex mathematical model for measuring the risk in various portfolios - has received some bad press of late. Many have argued that the recent financial crisis was ultimately a crisis of modern metrics-based risk management, and VaR is a major culprit. While undoubtedly risk modelling, as we know it, needs to evolve to bett...