Risk Management

ISBN: 0071357319

Author: Michel Crouhy

Condition: New

The All-in-One Bankers and Financial Managers Guide for Implementingand Usingan Effective Risk Management ProgramIn todays world of multibillion-dollar credit losses and bailouts, it has become increasingly imperative for corporate and banking leaders to monitor and manage riskon all fronts. Risk Management introduces and explores the latest financial and hedging techniques in use around the world, and provides the foundation for creating an integrated, consistent, and effective risk management strategy.The tested and comprehensive analyses and insights in Risk Management give bankers and financial managers all the necessary information for: * Risk Management Overview--From the history of risk management to the new regulatory and trading environment, a look at risk management past and present * Risk Management Program Design--Techniques to organize the risk management function, and design a system to cover your organizations many risk exposures * Risk Management Implementation--How to use the myriad systems and productsvalue at risk (VaR), stress-testing, derivatives, and more for measuring and hedging risk in todays marketplaceIn the financial world, the need for a dedicated risk management framework is a relatively recent phenomenon. But as the Long-Term Capital Management and BankAmerica crises attest, lack of up-to-date knowledge concerning its many components can be devastating. For financial managers in both the banking and business environments, Risk Management will introduce and illustrate the many aspects of modern risk managementand strengthen every financial risk management program.Exploding global competition, increasing regulations, and the ever-changing product mix of innovative, intricate derivative and securitization products have pushed risk management to the forefront of todays financial landscape. Corporate and banking executives trying to make sense of this environment often find themselves wasting valuable time searching for detailsand actually creating risk through innocent misinterpretations or misguided hedging strategies.Risk Management consolidates the entire field of corporate risk administrationfrom data and technological infrastructure to investment and hedging strategies that include innovative derivatives credit risk securitization techniquesinto one all-inclusive, easily accessible reference. Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, and Robert Markseasoned finance professionals with an unmatched breadth of experience covering banking, corporate, and academic risk management applicationswalk you through risk management with the focus on concrete, results-oriented tips and analysis.The result is, quite frankly, the only reference youll need for a quick, thorough understanding of todays complex financial risk management challenges. Look to the expert analysis and proven suggestions in Risk Management for a no-nonsense overview of: * Integrated Risk Management--How to understandand develop the necessary tools for measuring and managing all of your firms risk in terms of a common unit * Regulatory Environment--Group of 30 (G-30) policy recommendations, BIS 1998 models, and the standardized approach proposed by the Basle Committee * Market Risk--New rules set by the SEC for traded companies to disclose their risk management policies and quantify their exposure to market risk * Practical Measurement Issues--Utilizing historical, implied, and stochastic models to