Degenerating Bank's Risk Frameworks

It is a tragic end to the year for risk management in banking where the regulator's fascination with Risk Comparability and Risk Framework Uniformity has reduced banking risk management solutions to nothing more than Risk = BCI x ILM.

Project Finance Backtested

Looking back in time is something I recommend risk managers should do from time to time and this week drove me to do just that. In this short blog posting, we are going to take a peep at why and how it is essential for risk managers to see how well they are truly doing and that comes from looking back, it’s more healthy than you may believe, especially if you are honest with yourself.

When to act on a KRI

In this short blog posting, we have shared a risk management white paper on Key Risk Indicators and when an auditor should act given a specific KRI position.

Upending Risk Velocity

The Velocity of Risk is a novel risk measure some Enterprise Risk Managers have started to toy around with and in this article, we explore its application and a method for modelling it.

A presentation that walks through what Velocity of Risk is and where it can be applied is attached to this blog.

Applied Risk Appetite

Causal Capital often partners with various risk management solution providers across the planet and tomorrow we are pleased to announce that we will be part of a cohort Risk Management debate hosted by Metricstream [LINK], feel free to pop down to the event and say hi. We have also developed a small presentation on Risk Appetite that will influence our discussion and this document can be accessed from the blog below, please do take a look.

Sound Practices for Fintech

Issued in August and with one month to comment, the Bank for International Settlements has recently released Sound Practices for Implications of Fintech developments on banks and by extension, the supervisors of those banks are captured in this practice brief as well.

Hedge Fund CRO Charter

From a recent discussion on LinkedIn, the following question was put forward: "What are some of the roles a risk manager should play at the public market / equity investment fund?".

In this short article, we'll take a look at the charter of a risk manager, and why not? Actually, let's quickly take a peep at the top risk management position in any firm, the Chief Risk Officer.

ERM Decision Trees and ISO 31010

Over the years we have written numerous blogs that share in-depth presentations on different risk modelling methods and in the coming months ahead, Causal Capital is going to increase the number of these technically natured risk management articles.

Today we are going to focus on Decision-Trees from the ISO 31010 Risk Assessment standard, and if you are interested in downloading the presentation associated with this posting, please do continue reading.

Why some risk comparisons are problematic

Elusive Etiological Risks ~ Every once in a while, especially when a specific situation is resonating with society at large, partial intellectuals tend to come forth to put everything into perspective but unless they are careful with their 'etiological typecasting', they chance to further mislead everyone including themselves.

Why are people so bad at assessing risk?

Circular 900 a right way forwards

Every once in a while, banking regulators get it right, and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has certainly done so with its Circular 900 [LINK] on operational risk.

Risk Management Interconnectedness

Recent correspondence with a client drew me into a debate on ‘Interconnectedness’ or specifically: It would be good to get your thoughts on the second bullet point – Interconnectedness?

New Step-In Risk Guidelines

It has been a long time since we have blogged on this channel, a whole year, that is way too long in the world of banking and risk management. There has also been a lot of requests to bring this portal back into action, so without further ado, we'll attend to that with this new posting on Step-In risk.