Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Revision of the Standardised Approach for Credit Risk -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 General aspects -- 1.3 Use of external ratings -- 1.4 Credit risk mitigation techniques -- 1.5 Conclusions -- Recommended Literature -- Notes -- 2 The...

This dissertation comprises of three stand-alone research papers, all considering the use of high frequency financial data for financial market risk measurement. The first chapter considers the extraction of liquidity information from the intraday limit order book to enhance the daily market...