Risk management in banking

Foreword vii Preface ix About the Author xi 1 Risks and Risk Management 1 2 Banking Regulations Overview 13 3 Balance Sheet Management and Regulations 21 4 Liquidity Management and Liquidity Gaps 31 5 Interest Rate Gaps 43 6 Hedging and Gap Management 57 7 Economic Value of the Banking Book 67 8 Convexity Risk in Banking 81 9 Convexity Risk: The Case of Mortgages 91 10 Funds Transfer Pricing Systems 109 11 Returns, Random Shocks and Value-at-Risk 123 12 Portfolio Risk and Factor Models 135 13 Delta-normal VaR and Historical VaR 149 14 Extensions of Traditional VaR 159 15 Volatility 169 16 Simulation of Interest Rates 179 17 Market Risk Regulations 189 18 Credit Risk 199 19 Credit Risk Data 211 20 Scoring Models and Credit Ratings 221 21 Default Models 237 22 Counterparty Credit Risk 253 23 Credit Event Dependencies 263 24 Credit Portfolio Risk: Analytics 271 25 Credit Portfolio Risk: Simulations 283 26 Credit Risk Regulations 293 27 Capital Allocation and Risk Contributions 303 28 Risk-adjusted Performance Measures 315 29 Credit Derivatives 323 30 Securitizations 331 References 345 Index 351

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