Corporate governance represents the system through which a company is being controlled and managed. In defining of this concept, works on the idea overall performance of the company is based on the theory of interest holders. The paper concerns about the relationship between corporate governance...

Internal audit contributes through its processes to achieve the best working conditions within an entity and to reach the proposed objectives. Increasing the entity’s performance requires an effective coordination between the internal audit department and its risk management processes and...

Regulators are currently developing group-wide capital standards that are intended to enable the effective monitoring of insurance groups. Some jurisdictions are taking steps toward models with a focus on the groups’ consolidated balance sheets, while other models focus on the interrelations...

Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor in risk management. The literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value-at-Risk framework. While theoretical comparisons between...

Traditional risk management of hedge funds is often complicated by their lack of transparency. Consequently, plan sponsors traditionally rely on returns analysis to manage the risk of a portfolio of hedge funds. Such an approach involves some obvious difficulties, for example, returns data is...

This paper discusses the implications of having risk management systems built on simplified methodologies. As an example, quanto adjustments for risk factors simulation are considered. The impact on counterparty exposure and regulatory capital calculations is quantified.

We want to show the relevance of risk management and riskbased functions in banks, as during the recent crisis what has become very clear is that capital requirements for financial institutions were not always adequate given their risks. Under the current set of rules the Internal Capital...

This paper discusses a class of methodological issues that frequently arise in risk management systems such as PFE and CVA engines. Simplified methodology and shortcuts come at a price, sometimes a steep one. To account for model deficiencies and a disconnect between the calibration and the...

A major aspect of utility management is addressing customer satisfaction through communication and information campaigns and stakeholder involvement, however, what happens when a customer satisfaction threshold regarding the quality of services is reached and consumers will not pay higher rates...

In this article, the authors intend to underline the main aspects regarding the risk in European banking system. The economic downturn and financial crisis has negative impacted the European banking system, has affected all types banking products and services, all models of supervision and all...