Risk Management and Shareholders' Value in Banking

Structured in six parts, this book covers the main aspects of risk management, capital management and value creation for financial institutions. It adopts a step-by-step approach to complex subjects and builds a consistent framework showing how financial risks can be understood, measured, managed and covered with capital.

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"Risk Management and Shareholders' Value in Banking" covers all main aspects of risk management, capital management and value creation for financial institutions; it is structured in six parts. Part One covers the measurement and management of the interest rate risk on all assets and liabilities of a banking institution. Part Two presents portfolio models for market risks. Part Three addresses credit risk measurement. Part Four deals with operational risk. Part Five illustrates the main pieces of regulation on bank capital issued by the Basel Committee, the main focus being on Basel II. Part Six presents the link between risk and capital in all its implications and provides the reader with the technical models needed to allocate capital to risk-taking units, set risk-adjusted profitability targets, and optimize the amount and composition of bank capital.
This book: offers a truly comprehensive approach, binding together several perspectives usually dealt with by separate books; builds a unique and consistent framework showing how financial risks can be understood, measured, managed and covered with capital; adopts a step-by-step approach to complex subjects; reviews all the main concepts and schemes that have become standard practice over the latest ten years; and, includes up-to-date, state-of-the art illustrations of the most advanced issues, such as recovery risk, enterprise-wide risk reporting and the implementation of Basel Accord.