ISDA Insights from Afar: Examining Key Agenda Items

Richard BennettBasel III, Credit Risk, ECL, Enterprise Risk Management, Market Risk, RegulationLeave a Comment

ISDA blog

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) annual general meeting takes place in Tokyo this week. The event serves as a platform for insightful discussions, strategic collaborations, and the exchange of ideas surrounding the latest trends, challenges, and innovations in risk management. While we couldn’t be in attendance this year, several agenda items caught our eye which compelled us to … Read More

Exploring the Global Impact of the 2023 US Banking Crisis

Richard BennettBasel III, BCBS239, IRRBB, Market Risk, RegulationLeave a Comment

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It is around a year since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic failed, and while its effects were by no means as far reaching as those in the global financial crisis over 15 years ago, it has sent substantial repercussions throughout the industry, its regulators, and governing bodies. Here, we take a look at some of the global … Read More

Client Testimonial – The Treasury Corporation of Victoria

Richard BennettCredit Risk, ESG, FRTB, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, Stress TestingLeave a Comment

Client Testimonial: TCV

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 (FRC) Workbench

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FRC Workbench

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?

Richard BennettClimate Risk, Enterprise Risk ManagementLeave a Comment

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