Risk Training’s new interface for 2013 We asked, you answered, we delivered. Based on your feedback, the absolutely essential Google page analytics tool and our friends at Pingdom.com we have been hard at work for the last few months. You, dear readers, asked us to deliver:A faster, more responsive site. More focus on risk, risk training and risk […]
Tag: Regulation
Asset Liability Management (ALM) Banking Models – Assumptions, Convention & Hacks
Asset Liability Management (ALM) in Banking – Assumptions review for model builders & practitioners In a recent class on Asset Liability Management (ALM) my MBA students asked a number of interesting questions. The questions were interesting because despite working in Risk Management for two decades I had never been asked these questions prior to this class. […]
A regulator looks at Basel II, Basel III & the Financial Crisis – Bull by the Horns by Sheila Bair
Basel II, Basel III & the Financial Crisis – Bull by the Horns – a review. Bull by the Horns: Fighting to save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from itself by Sheila Bair, chronicles her tenure as FDIC Chairman from 2006 to 2011 during the Great Recession. It is a gripping read as […]
The focus on Bank Regulation & Bank Regulators. From Matt Taibbi & Michael Lewis to Senator Warren.
It has not been a good month for Wall Street. On February 4th, Michael Lewis came out with guns blazing against Greg Smith’s “Why I left Goldman Sachs”. Branding Mr. Smith as tone deaf, self serving and narcissistic is something that would have really tickled Goldman on any other day in February. Unfortunately Lewis didn’t stop […]