by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jan 20, 2025 | Risk Report
This week the affected home and business owners in LA began to scale the mountain of paperwork that inevitably follows in the wake of the fires. First stop was most likely to file an insurance claim. However, afflicted as it is by fires and earthquakes, California is...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jan 13, 2025 | Risk Report
It was difficult to find an appropriate topic for this first Risk Report of 2025. In true New Year’s fashion every common risk topic—inflation, interest rates, dollar strength, bank regulation, and more—has been thrown into the air like confetti and it is not yet...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Dec 23, 2024 | Risk Report
The first thing they teach you at economist school is that you can either predict where an indicator is going, or you can predict when it will change, but you cannot do both and still be right. As we are deep into the season of predictions there are plenty of examples...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Dec 9, 2024 | Risk Report
37,000 banks, 5,000 bank failures, 158 years. That’s the stuff of dreams, if you are a researcher at the New York Federal Reserve. Liberty Street, the NY Fed blog, has just published a series of excellent posts about what this treasure trove of data can tell us about...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Nov 25, 2024 | Risk Report
The rule of the conferences of the parties to the Paris Agreement (COPs) is that nobody leaves until an agreement is reached, which of course ensures an outcome, but not necessarily an outcome anybody wants. The deal that was reached in Baku, Azerbaijan is that by...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Nov 18, 2024 | Risk Report
Turbulent times can leave anyone feeling a little raw, and banks are no exception. Last year’s runs raised the flags on the resilience of the banking system and luckily the smart people at the Fed of New York know how to measure bank vulnerability and have just...