by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 29, 2025 | Risk Report
Today, The Atlantic reminded me that Alan Greenspan, the renowned economist and former Fed chair, has been said to follow the Men’s Underwear Index (MUI) as an indicator of economic turning points. Many men consider new underwear a nicety, so when they feel economic...
by Jonathan Leonardelli, FRM | Sep 24, 2025 | Model Development
In this blog of FRG’s blog series on coding best practices to reduce model risk during model development, we focus on the Honed element of MATHS. To hone a process, skill, or ability, means to make it “perfect or completely suitable for its purpose.” That is the focus...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 22, 2025 | Risk Report
As the great philosopher Post Malone states: Run away, but we’re running in circles Run away, run away —Circles (2019) It seems like a magic trick. A bank issues loans to consumers and businesses, and each of these loans has an expected credit loss. The bank is...
by Jonathan Leonardelli, FRM | Sep 17, 2025 | Model Development
This blog series explores how applying a set of coding best practices can help reduce errors during model development. We’ve captured these practices in the acronym MATHS: Modularized, Archived, Tested, Honed, and Standardized. This post focuses on the Tested element....
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 16, 2025 | Risk Report
Said no one ever. Regardless of where you live or which team you are on, bank or regulator, you are probably never completely satisfied with global bank regulation. Granted, the regulation was not made to make anybody happy, but to curb systemic risk, especially in...
by Jonathan Leonardelli, FRM | Sep 10, 2025 | Model Development
This blog series explores how applying a set of coding best practices can help reduce errors during model development. We’ve captured these practices in the acronym MATHS: Modularized, Archived, Tested, Honed, and Standardized. This post focuses on the Archived...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 8, 2025 | Risk Report
A camera catches a column of hand-written numbers as Sir David Attenborough narrates: Here, in the unforgiving embrace of the high peaks, a ghost of finance moves, the systemic risk, a creature so rightfully vilified its very existence seems a threat to our way of...
by Jonathan Leonardelli, FRM | Sep 3, 2025 | Model Development
This blog series explores how applying a set of coding best practices can help reduce errors during model development. We’ve captured these practices in the acronym MATHS: Modularized, Archived, Tested, Honed, and Standardized. Each post will dive into one element of...
by Jonathan Leonardelli, FRM | Aug 27, 2025 | Model Development
Model risk management begins with robust model development, implementation, and use [1]. Yep – this blog series from FRG is going to talk about model risk management (MRM). While those words may have you moving your mouse to the “close window” x, stay with us. We are...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jul 28, 2025 | Risk Report
We recently mentioned that the US regulators have asked the large banks to comment on a proposal to recalibrate—and most likely lower—what is called the supplementary leverage ratio. The supplementary leverage ratio determines the extra capital buffer large banks have...
