by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jun 24, 2024 | Risk Report
Many of us know the chain of events set in motion, when you tell a toddler in very specific terms what they should NOT do. Sometimes financial markets act in the same way. In this year’s yen episodes, the grown-up is the Japanese top foreign-exchange official, Masato...
by Joey Doyle | May 3, 2024 | Climate Risk
This blog series explores initial industry research into managing climate risk so that you understand what is at stake for your financial institution (FI), as well as how to get started with measuring and mitigating this emerging source of risk. We have presented an...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Mar 4, 2024 | Risk Report
We were going to give credit risk and commercial real estate a pass this week, but the news wouldn’t let us. Late Thursday our already troubled friend, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), said it had discovered “material weaknesses” in how it tracks loan risk. The...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 5, 2024 | Risk Report
Yeah, well, there was a fear it might come, there were hints it might come, there were expert predictions it might come, there were small kids yelling: “It’s coming, it’s coming,” and this week it came: the office loan losses. It wasn’t a lot, but enough to evoke that...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Dec 4, 2023 | Climate Risk, Risk Report
Bad COP, Good COP, Take 28 This weekend is the COP28 (which stands for the 28th meeting of the conference of the parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)). It’s being held in Dubai, ten-thousands of people are flying in from all over the...
