I am very pleased to be part of this forward-looking conferenceon developments in capital regulation. Because thepurpose of capital is to support risk, I decided to approachthis session from the viewpoint of someone leading aninstitution that depends, for its success or failure, on howwell it...

Liberalization and deregulation have recently accelerated.It is therefore useful to keep risk within a certain level inrelation to capital, considering that financial institutionsmust control their risk appropriately to maintain thesafety and soundness of their operation. In 1988, the...

[...]In this article, we explore the DPCs’ approachesto risk management and the extent to which theseapproaches provide competitive advantage. We begin bycharacterizing the major intermediaries in the derivativesmarkets and describing how they manage risk. We thendiscuss the emergence of...

This paper describes a new and intuitive methodfor answering these technical questions by tabulating theexact loss distribution arising from correlated credit eventsfor any arbitrary portfolio of counterparty exposures, downto the individual contract level, with the losses measuredon a...

This article investigates the factors influencing the timingand funding of payments in the CHAPS Sterling system,drawing where appropriate on comparisons with paymentactivity in Fedwire...

[...]This article discusses how the Federal Reserve manages itscredit risk exposure from daylight overdrafts. We first presenta simple economic framework for thinking about the causes ofcredit risk and the possible tools that lenders have to help them manage it...