by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jun 10, 2024 | Risk Report
The Risk Report is always excited to dive into news details that validate what it already believes to be true. And if it can be combined with topical lyrics from Queen Bey, it is even better. So, remember the yield curve? The one by all measures has been inverted for...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 26, 2024 | Risk Report
Information about the Chinese financial markets is often fleeting, sparse, and long after the fact. This week, however, Bloomberg brought a piece on a recent Quant Quake, a headline too good to pass up. The piece talks about how Chinese quant hedge funds—hedge funds...
by Samantha Zerger | Oct 15, 2019 | CECL
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System’s SR 11-7 supervisory guidance (2011) provides an effective model risk management framework for financial institutions (FI’s). SR 11-7 covers everything from the definition of a model to the robust...
by Philip Lawton | Sep 5, 2017 | Regulations
Calculating expected credit losses under IFRS 9 is easy. It requires little more than high school algebra to determine the aggregate present value of future cash flows. But it is not easy to ascertain the key components that are used by the basic equation—regardless...
by Philip Lawton | Apr 27, 2017 | Business Analytics
The Federal Reserve and the OCC define model risk as “the potential for adverse consequences from decisions based on incorrect or misused model outputs and reports.”[1] Statistical models are the core of stress testing and credit analysis, but banks are increasingly...
