Riskczar Comics #3
Posts Tagged ‘credit risk’
Riskczar Comics – PIIGS
Posted in comics, Humour, tagged board, credit risk, Greece, PIIGS, risk culture on October 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Nurse risk management
Posted in Books, My Opinions, tagged chemo, credit risk, hospital, ISO 31000, market risk, nurses, risk management on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For those of us who wake up every morning, put on our suits and ties and head off to our risk management jobs only to spend the day thinking about fat tails, ISO3 1000 or business continuity, compared to the risk management that nurses perform everyday, we are nothing but a bunch of well paid prima donnas. [...]
van Deventer: Risk Management Lessons from Lance Armstrong
Posted in League of Extraordinary Risk Gentlemen, Sports, Thought Leadership, tagged credit risk, Kamakura, Lance Armstrong, liquidity risk, risk management, van Deventer on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I would like bring to your attention the blog by Donald van Deventer from the Kamakura Corporation. We may both write about risk management but on a risk management scale, Don is to Thomas Jefferson what I am Bart Simpson. Don is the real deal. He writes about his experiences in risk management with quotes [...]
Downgrade unlikely because of strong ERM
Posted in ERM Basics, tagged credit risk, ERM, S&P on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I posted an ERM-related press release from the S&P recently which was very well received by Riskczar readers as measured by the number of hits received. Here is a very similar one that notes that counterparty credit rating on Platinum Underwriting Holdings Ltd. increased to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’. I really like the comments from credit [...]
What an S&P rating looks like when ERM is mentioned
Posted in Risk management, Thought Leadership, tagged credit risk, ERM, S&P, Trevor Levine on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an example of a press release by S&P for Endurance American Insurance Co. where they note that the organization’s management and enterprise risk management capabilities were assessed as part of their rating: Credit analyst Taoufik Gharib added: “The ratings on Endurance reflect our opinion that the group has established a strong track record [...]
Banana Skins 2000 vs 2008
Posted in Frameworks, Risk management, Thought Leadership, tagged banana skins, credit risk, liquidity risk, PwC ERM on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The annual Banana Skins survey from the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation is always fun to read. So I decided I would dig up the 2000 list and compare it to the 2008. Each year bankers, regulators and observers are surveyed and asked to list their banana skins (as in what is going [...]
