The Financial Services industry is at an innovations crossroads where Big Data, digital disruption and technology have splintered the dominant design of how products are delivered and how current processes and people function. Risks abound such as ‘What types of innovation will dominate',...

The aim of the article is to identify the risk factors affecting bancassurance development in Poland. The development is understood here as a change of gross written premiums obtained through banks in Poland. The group of risk factors selected in a survey conducted among financial sector...

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance is, as of mid-2021, a hot topic that many firms are grappling with, given an increasing level of investor and consumer focus on the sustainability credentials of their businesses, and what they are doing to improve them. For example, major...

We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...

This paper investigates factors associated with high quality Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs in financial services firms, and whether ERM quality enhances performance and signals credibility to the financial markets. ERM, developed with the assistance of the accounting profession,...

The current literature on the adoption of enterprise risk management (ERM) abstracts from the issue of its strategic context. Accounting for the interplay between ERM and various individual risk management (IRM) practices, this paper presents a theoretical basis to study the strategic...

Due to use profit-sharing modes in Islamic banks, the nature of risks in these institutions has changed and the return of investments or deposits isn't predetermined. Because the return of investors settles based on profit-loss sharing, they are also contributed to risk of banking operations. In...

We study the problem of finding the worst-case joint distribution of a set of risk factors given prescribed multivariate marginals with nonlinear loss function. The method has applications to any situation where marginals are provided, and bounds need to be determined on total portfolio risk....

This paper amplifies themes growing out of Greenbaum, 2012. That paper presented a framework for thinking about Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). We begin this paper by deconstructing the concepts of risk, risk management and ERM. These are all unsettled ideas, but they have been adapted and...