In search of the fastest landing page in the West. Two years ago when we completed our third pivot of this site we thought 900 ms for a primary landing page was fast. Since we serve content with a large number of images, inside pages

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Economic Capital – Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask. For the last seventeen years I have hated conversations with board members around economic capital. It is perfectly acceptable to discuss Market risk, Credit risk or interest rates mismatch in isolation

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Calculating Economic Capital – Using Leverage ratio So far we have presented two methods for estimating Economic Capital. The first uses the worst case change in Shareholders equity, the second the volatility of the same changes. The challenge with method one and two is that

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Calculating Economic Capital – Using Volatility In our first method presented earlier for calculating economic capital we used the historical worst case shift. In method two we use volatility. Method two is a variation designed to provide additional flexibility in estimating probability of capital shortfall in the

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Economic Capital Case Study – Method One Our alternate model for calculating Economic Capital comes in a multiple variation. We do a detailed presentation for method one, followed by smaller posts on each variation. Method one use changes in Shareholders equity as reported in publicly

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Econmic Capital Modeling – Using accounting data With the arrival of fair value accounting, mark to market disclosures and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) the quality of accounting data has improved over the last decade. It is not a perfect proxy for ground realities but it is represents

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Economic Capital Case Study – Banking Sector The best way to illustrate our shortfall economic capital model is to walk through an extended case study.  Here is our plan. Let’s take a look at five financial institutions. Goldman Sachs, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo

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Economic Capital – a first look Among the many uses of capital one overlooked use is its ability to send signals to regulators, customers and partners.   Models and their usage give an indication of the sophistication and maturity of an organization. Using economic capital models

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Starting this week a brand new series on economic capital for the financial services industry. We cut through the smoke and mirrors show around economic capital and investigate alternate approaches for the enterprise that shy away from questionable assumptions. Imagine calculating Enterprise capital without building

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It’s been exactly two years. The last major redesign done for FinanceTrainingCourse.com happened in September 2012 . In June 2012 we took a big leap forward by moving to AWS and completely revamping our site and then did yet another revamp two months later as