Enterprise risk management (ERM)

In search of the gold standard

Data is fundamental to enterprise risk management systems. Some banks have looked to build single, consistent central sources of information for risk analysis, but how are they tackling this task? Is this goal even achievable? By Clive Davidson

Reporting riddle

A requirement by the UK Financial Services Authority for financial institutions to run regular reports on their liquidity positions from next year has raised a number of operational challenges. Is this fuelling a move towards enterprise risk management?…

The shock of the interaction

Banks have long talked of enterprise risk management, but many firms have historically measured risk types separately and aggregated the results. The financial crisis has highlighted that credit and market risk are closely linked. What are the challenges…

The big picture

Regulators are looking at how best to improve the measuring of risk, but Peter Schild argues the industry should focus on improving governance practices and be considering people and processes across the entire enterprise

The rotten core

The US is now closely examining the root causes of the subprime crisis, including mis-selling, fraud, poor internal controls and perverse incentive schemes. David Benyon explores these issues, and some potential solutions

Rethinking (operational) risk management

For operational risk managers to really make a difference to their firms' fortunes, they must be willing to get their hands dirty and face facts, no matter how scary the facts may be, says Sergio Scandizzo, in the second of a two-part series

Required reading

Over the past year, we have witnessed a unique experiment in what makes financial risk management effective. A succinct supervisory summary of what we have learned should be required reading for all interested parties, argues David Rowe

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