Riskczar Comics #3
Nurse risk management
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…
van Deventer: Risk Management Lessons from Lance Armstrong
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.…
Downgrade unlikely because of strong ERM
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…
What an S&P rating looks like when ERM is mentioned
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…
Banana Skins 2000 vs 2008
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…