This сhapter focuses on the assessment and management of ALM risks: liquidity risk and interest-rate risk. The first part is devoted to liquidity risk: various types of liquidity risk, its sources, measures, and the principles of liquidity risk management, as well as scenarios for stress...

Integrated risk management means the comprehensive and effective management all significant risks (affecting the bank's activities) and their interrelation, including building a corporate culture of risk management and integrating risk management into strategic planning. The significant risks...

This article is dedicated to the assessment of the dynamic fractional asset pricing model for financial risk evaluation and the use of the fractal markets theory to mathematically predict the price dynamics of assets as part of a financial risk management strategy. The article identifies...

This chapter illustrates the selected issues connected with the covered call strategy: the strategy design, the impact of certain variables (the price of the underlying asset and time to expiration (maturity) on the performance of the values of the ratios delta, gamma, vega, theta, and rho....

The Pareto model is very popular in risk management, since simple analytical formulas can be derived for financial downside risk measures (value-at-risk, expected shortfall) or reinsurance premiums and related quantities (large claim index, return period). Nevertheless, in practice,...

Managers of official dollar reserves are bound to pay attention to the debate over safe assets: their investment portfolios operationally define such assets. This chapter argues that reserve managers need not worry about a shortage of safe assets. The debate turns first on whether demand for...

Over the recent years, Danmarks Nationalbank has transformed its approach to reserve management. The new framework is organized around two main pillars - a tiered liquidity management framework and an overall risk budget. Together they provide a framework for handling large balance sheet...