Under the Basel II standards, the Operational Risk (OpRisk) advanced measurement approach is not prescriptive regarding the class of statistical model utilized to undertake capital estimation. It has however become well accepted to utilize a Loss Distributional Approach (LDA) paradigm to model...

The financial crisis prompted closer supervision of securitisation as a mechanism for refinancing the economy. In France the principal underlying assets of securitisations are bank loans and credits to resident households and non-financial companies.

We consider capital allocation in a hierarchical corporate structure where stakeholders at two organizational levels (e.g., board members vs line managers) may have conflicting objectives, preferences, and beliefs about risk. Capital allocation is considered as the solution to an optimization...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to build an easy to implement, pragmatic and parsimonious yet accurate model to determine an exposure at default (EAD) distribution for CCL (contingent credit lines) portfolios. Design/methodology/approach–Using an algorithm similar to the basic...

This article is dealed about the requirements on new architecture of financial markets, namely for banking and insurance market. The principles of Basel II and Solvency II are discussed. The second part of article concerned with quality changes in comercial insurable risk and financial decesion...

Gemäß den im Juni 2004 durch den Baseler Ausschuss endgültig verabschiedeten Kapitalstandards (Basel II) sind Kredite in Höhe des so genannten unerwarteten Verlusts mit Eigenkapital zu unterlegen. Für erwartete Verluste hat das jeweilige Kreditinstitut Rückstellungen zu bilden, wobei hier...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the EU Commission have submitted – widely harmonised – proposals for reforming the capital requirements for banks and investment firms (Basel II). The object of the reform is to strengthen the stability of the financial market by aligning the...

This paper reviews the extant research on systemic risk in the insurance sector and outlines new areas of research in this field. We summarize and classify 43 theoretical and empirical research papers from both academia and practitioner organizations. The survey reveals that traditional...

This paper analyses the performance of the international insurance industry during the financial crisis and examines the importance of insurance to systemic financial market stability, emphasizing the need for correct assessment of the characteristics of insurance companies, such as their...