Concepts and Measurement of Risk - Article by Borio, Furfine, Lowe

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Claudio Borio, Craig Furfine and Philip Lowe discuss concepts of risks in their article "Pro-cyclicality of the financial system and financial stability: issues and policy options": They distinguish several types of risk: expected and unexpected losses (in the statistical sense) “Expected losses” refer to the average or mean losses anticipated over a particular ...

Responding with a code of conduct - IIF Interim Report 2008 on Best practices

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The IIF (which is essentially the main political lobby organisation of the large, multinational commercial banks) has released a new report on markets best practices. It can be seen as the response of the banks to the regulatory efforts of the G7 Finance Ministers and the FSF. In summary, Banks ...