A key firm in the recent crisis has been AIG. Its CDS financial intermediation tried to function on too thin layer of capital – high leverage – owing to a misreading of the degree of risk embodied in ever more complex financial products and markets. I explain why the application of...

Alan Greenspan’s paper (March 2010) presents his retrospective view of the crisis. His theme has several parts. First, the housing price bubble, its subsequent collapse and the financial crisis were not predicted either by the market, the FED, the IMF or the regulators in the years leading to...

This study aims to address the issue of liquidity risk management in Algerian Islamic banks. This research was dealt with by addressing the risks of bank liquidity, and then on how to manage liquidity risk in As Alsalam Bank-Algeria. In this study, we have relied on two descriptive and...

We introduce a class of quantile-based risk measures that generalize Value at Risk (VaR) and, likewise Expected Shortfall (ES), take into account both the frequency and the severity of losses. Under VaR a single confidence level is assigned regardless of the size of potential losses. We allow...

The purpose of our study is to provide an overview of the revisions made to the Basel III regulatory framework in the aftermath of the 2007 crisis, with regard to measuring the risk associated with positions included in the trading book. The calculation of the regulatory capital requirement...

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