Risk Management
ECB to accept green bonds as collateral
Green asset purchases also possible subject to programme-specific criteria
Firms’ risk management likely ‘severely deficient’ – BNM deputy
Innovative technology requires risk managers to shift their focus, says Chew
Employer-employee loans can cut credit risk - Minneapolis Fed article
Research looks at Minnesota scheme
Technology can support comprehensive credit risk management – panellists
The expansion of balance sheets since the crisis has created new challenges for central banks
Public debt in low-income countries rising to risky levels – IMF
The fund recommends official creditors co-ordinate their response to debt crises
Carney proposes public-private co-operation in markets regulation
Supervisors cannot regulate every circumstance and anticipate all market innovations, governor says
Riksbank study explores new stress test models for banks
New proposal recommends developing models that can foresee multiple challenges and solutions
IMF explores ways to reform US mortgage finance
Policies to foster homeownership for lower income households did not cause the crisis, research says
Argentina expands collateral for farmers
Central bank aims to expand credit for key agricultural sector
BoE toughens 2016 stress tests
Test imposes new capital requirements and larger macroeconomic shocks
Risk management services provider of the year: Wall Street Systems
Strong risk tech and support services underpin treasury management system
Malawi stress test shows three banks fall below Tier 1 requirement under minor credit shock
Latest stress tests show improved resilience
Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei on local government debt and tax reform
Minister of finance explains how the government plans to tackle China's fiscal problems
Assessing credit risk post-crisis at a central bank
How the Bank of Canada has developed its own credit assessment processes
Fed orders banks to break open black boxes
Banks struggling to prise information out of vendors after Fed clamps down
Can central bankers live up to their role as the guardians of finance?
Central bankrs need to be the risk managers of the financial system
OCC 'disappointed' at lack of accounting convergence
FASB and IASB must keep trying to unite standards, say bank regulators
NALM Americas 2013: Central banks should take more credit risk, says Flar CRO
An allocation to investment-grade corporate bonds could increase diversification and provide a cushion against rising interest rates, says Latin American Reserves Fund CRO
Systemic risk measurement gets book treatment
Jorge Chan-Lau draws on experiences at IMF, World Bank and the central banks of Canada, Chile and Malaysia to provide methods and tools to measure systemic risk
Striving for a strategic role for risk management
Risk and control
Banks move to meet Bank Indonesia call for ‘external loss database’
Indonesian banks form association to explore the sharing of loss data and help develop risk management practices in response to call by Bank Indonesia
The flaws in the Fed's new macro stress test proposals
Stress tests under fire
Central Bank of Barbados challenges rating downgrade
S&P lowers Barbados’s sovereign credit rating triggering angry response from central bank; says it is ‘manifestly’ not the case that debt risk has increased
ECB relaxes collateral eligibility rules
Broader range of lower quality assets now acceptable under ECB collateral rules; move should help Spanish banks after results of stress test reveal a potential €62 billion capital shortfall