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Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’ A corporation can manage risks in one of two fundamentally different ways: (1) one...

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Key Issues in Operational Risk Capital Modeling

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’ In an effort to bolster soundness standards in banking, the 2006 international...

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Measuring Operational Risk from Loss Data

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’ The reading discusses: Introdution: the regulatory challenge The nature of...

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Economic Interpretation of Sensitivity Measures

Duration can be interpreted as the average time receipt of each cash flow weighted by its present value.  This applied to all cash flows is called Macaulay duration. The duration of a coupon paying...

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Bankers Trust Case Study

P&G like several other profitable companies was looking at ways to hedge itself from risk. They were also looking at methods at making small gains, where possible. In case the gains turned to be...

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The Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’. In this paper, the author explains the key failure mechanics of large dealer...

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Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’. Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk, which was originally...

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Observations and Developments in Risk Appetite Frameworks and IT Infrastructure

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’. The report summarizes the efforts of two SSG working groups to assess the...

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Free eBook – Ten Steps to Financial Success

Our objective of this ebook is to help you become financially successful, to help you save, and grow your money. It is definitely not an easy task because the kind of society that we live in today...

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Sensitivity Measures for a Portfolio

In financial markets assets are managed at a portfolio level which in other words means a large number of securities are managed in a group. It would be very inconvenient to consider movements in each...

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Case Study: Trading Scandal at Kidder Peabody

To cut a long story short; young man armed with an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School joins Kidder Peabody after working with Morgan Stanley and First Boston at age 33....

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Stress Testing Banks

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’. How much capital and liquidity does a bank need – to support its risk taking...

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A Comparative Assessment of Basel II/III and Solvency II

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Operational and Integrated Risk Management’. This is a part of the regulatory readings. In the course of creating a single...

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Risk Management for Hedge Funds

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Risk Management and Investment Management’. Despite the rapid growth in hedge-fund assets over the past decade, the industry...

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Chase Manhattan and their involvement with Drysdale Securities

Drysdale Government Securities traded in government securities in the secondary market. It had a capitalization of $20 million. They dealt with a relatively lesser known type of government securities...

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Trust and Delegation (Operational Risk in Hedge Funds)

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Risk Management and Investment Management’. This paper studies operational risk in the hedge fund industry using due diligence...

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Perspectives on Liquidity Stress Testing (Iceland Example)

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Current Issues in Financial Markets’. The global financial crisis revealed weaknesses in the stress testing exercises...

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Challenges of Financial Innovation

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Current Issues in Financial Markets’. The ebook below is Challenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century. For FRM exam,...

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Sovereign Creditworthiness and Financial Stability: An International Perspective

Financial stability depends critically on the two-way interaction between banks and governments. Sovereign creditworthiness represents the ultimate source of insurance for the fi nancial system and...

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Tails of the Unexpected (Andrew Haldane and Benjamin Nelson)

This reading is a part of the syllabus for FRM Part 2 Exam in the section ‘Current Issues in Financial Markets’. The normal distribution provides a beguilingly simple description of the world. Outcomes...

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