The Razor™ Platform (Razor) provides an end-to-end Risk Management, Control and Reporting solution for many organisations from financial services to corporate treasury markets operations. Razor was originally developed to assist financial institutions with the integration of market and counterparty risks in their trading books. This later expanded to include credit and liquidity risk as well as regulatory calculations as required … Read More
Razor Risk launches the Razor Finance, Risk And Capital Workbench to streamline the provision of banking risk and capital analysis
The Razor Finance, Risk and Capital (FRC) Workbench is an early warning system which enables financial institutions to identify potential breaches of their risk limits, profitability and other key targets instantly and interactively It also allows a bank to calculate consistent aggregated results to meet a wide range of ad hoc risk management, profitability, capital adequacy and liquidity what-if analysis … Read More
How should firms stress test for climate change?
Climate change creates risks to both the safety and soundness of individual firms and to the stability of the whole financial system. These are already starting to crystallise and have the potential to increase substantially in the future. The challenge for firms is considerable, and perhaps not unlike that posed by market risk and capital adequacy requirements in the 1990s. … Read More
Challenges to Financial Stability in the Eurozone
Through the bi-annual Financial Stability Review issued in November, the European Central Bank (ECB) warned of potential side effects of its loose monetary policy, highlighting how years of unprecedented stimuli designed to bolster the economy is contributing to an erosion of financial stability. The Review goes to the heart of the challenge faced by the ECB, which has only just … Read More
Banking Reforms and Governance in an increasingly anxious world
It’s often said that in every crisis there is an opportunity. And in the case of the financial crisis, the
regulators, mandated by the G20, seized the moment.