Data
Real option valuation and equity markets
Many non-financial assets can be viewed as ‘real options’ linked to some underlying variable such as a commodity price. Here, Thomas Dawson and Jennifer Considine show that the stock price of a well-known electricity generating company is significantly…
Op risk economic capital is 15%, says BIS study
Banks allocate an average of 15% of their economic capital for operational risk, according to a study released today by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Mark-it Partners puts it all on Red
Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are negotiating the sale of their credit derivatives reference entity database, Red, to UK credit risk data company Mark-it Partners.
Component proponents
Principal component analysis is a widely used technique in finance but can be problematic when different data sets are grouped together. Christophe Pérignon and Christophe Villa show how to resolve this problem using a technique from biology called…
Equity to credit pricing
Default models
Beyond Basel II - operational risk management comes of age
Integrated, enterprise-wide, operational risk management can offer much more than just regulatory compliance.