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Risk Management in Banks and Financial Institutions : A high level
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By A V Vedpuriswar
November 1, 2010
The rise of risk management
Year Event
1971 Breakdown of Bretton Woods
1973 Oil Shock
1987 Dow Jones crash
1989 Nikkei crash
1980s Latin American debt crisis
1994 Mexican Peso crisis
1997 Asian currency crisis
1998 Rouble /LTCM crisis
2000 Dotcom bust
2001 WTC terrorist strikes
2007 Sub Prime crisis
2008 Collapse of Bear Stearns, Lehman
2009 Sovereign debt crisis
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The Real Crisis
3Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
The Ruble Crisis
4Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
The Asian currency Crisis
5Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
The Mexican Peso Crisis
6Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
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Evolution of Analytical Risk Management tools
1938 Bond duration1952 Markowitz mean variance framework1963 Beta1966 Multiple factor models1973 Black Scholes, Greeks1983 Risk adjusted return on capital1986 Limits on exposure by duration1988 Limits on Greeks1992 Stress testing1993 Value-at-Risk1994 Risk Metrics1997 Credit Metrics1998 Integration of credit & market risk2000 Enterprise wide risk management
Types of risk
Risks can be broadly classified into two groups.
Business risks: Risks assumed willingly to create a competitive advantage and to add value for shareholders.
Financial risks: Relate to possible losses owing to financial market activities.
What is the linkage?
8The more the business risk, the lower should be the financial risk.
Risk Categories
Reputation risk
Business environment
Economic cycles
Industry cycles
Industry trends
Technology change
Vision/strategy
Business risks
Primary Operational
Credit riskLiquidity
riskMarket Risk
Transaction processing
Legal
Compliance Liability
Security Tax
Financial risks
Source : UBS
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Examples of Risk
1. There is a general downturn in the markets and clients reduce their trading volumes, reducing the commissions that we earn.
2. We enter into a new business area, but the revenues do not meet expectations, and will not cover the costs of the investment made.
3. A client we have lent money to goes bankrupt and we lose the funds.
4. Share prices fall 10% globally and we lose money on our own positions.
5. Due to a credit market dislocation, we find ourselves unable to borrow funds at an acceptable price to fund our actual or proposed commitments
6. A former employee sues the bank for discrimination.
7. A CD containing confidential Wealth Management client data is lost
8. A trader executes transactions, but does not enter them into the trading system until later, and only inputs the ones that have not lost money.
9. A regulator suspends our licence to conduct business in their country due to failures in internal controls.
10.Wealth management clients move their money away from us, due to public revelation of problems.
11.A counterparty who owes us money under an OTC derivative transaction defaults due to financial difficulty
12.A counterparty who owes us money under an OTC derivative transaction refuses to pay and claims they were not authorised to enter the trade
which category?
Source : UBS
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Valuation & Risk Management approaches
Derivatives
Valuation
Risk Management
PrincipleExpected discounted
value
Distribution of
future value
Focus Centre of distribution Tails of distribution
HorizonCurrent value,
discountingFuture value
PrecisionHigh precision
needed
Less precision
needed
Distributio
nRisk neutral Actual
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¨ Risk of loss owing to movements in the level or volatility of market prices of stocks, interest rates, currencies, commodities.
Market risk
A closer look at currency risk
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14Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
15Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
16Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
17Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
18Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
19Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
20Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
21Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
22Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
23Ref : Prof. Werner Antweiler , http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
The Dollar vs the rest
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Source: New York Fed
Long term interest rate movements
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Source: New York Fed
Short term interest rate movements
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Source: New York Fed
Stock Market Index movements
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Source: New York Fed
¨ This refers to the possibility that the transaction cannot be conducted at the prevailing market prices owing to the size of the position relative to normal trading lots.
¨ Liquidity risk may also arise because of the inability to meet payment obligations.
¨ This is especially a risk for portfolios that are leveraged and subject to margin calls from the lender.
¨ If cash reserves are insufficient, losses in market value may create a need for cash payments, leading
to an involuntary liquidation of the portfolio at depressed prices.
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Liquidity Risk
Liquidity, model and market risks
¨ Liquidity, market and model risks are interrelated.
¨ Breakdown of markets leads to liquidity problems.
¨ When markets are not in place, models become necessary.
¨ Models pose various risks.
¨ This risk arises because the counterparties may be unwilling or unable to meet contractual obligations.
¨ Pre settlement risk arises over the life of the contract.
¨ Settlement risk occurs when a counterparty defaults after the institution has already made its payment.
¨ Settlement risk is very real for foreign exchange transactions which involve exchange of payments in different currencies at different times.
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Credit risk
The Nature of Credit Risk
¨ Less liquid positions
¨ Longer time horizons
– e.g. 1 year
¨ Negatively skewed distributions
¨ Potential for longer tails
¨ Correlations and concentrations
Credit Risk components
– Traditional banking products, e.g.
– Loans
– commitments to lend
– letters of credit
– Traded products e.g.
– OTC derivatives
– Repos (and reverse repos)
– Securities borrowing and lending
– Plus settlement risk on e.g.
– Foreign exchange
¨ This is the risk arising out of inadequate or internal processes, people and systems from external events.
¨ The best protection against operational risks consists of
-redundancies of systems
-clear separation of responsibilities with strong internal controls
-regular contingency planning.
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Operational Risk
UBS Operational Risk Definitions
Transaction Processing Risk (TPR) is the risk of financial loss due to deficiencies in transaction processing systems or internal controls front to back.
Legal Risk is the risk of financial loss resulting from the non-enforceability of rights arising under a contract or from property or under the general law.
Liability Risk is the risk of loss arising from potential or actual liability resulting from a legal or equitable claim, including contractual and legal claims, debt, and actions based on breach or default of contract, commitment of tort, violation of criminal law, infringement of trademark or anti-trust action.
Security Risk is the risk of loss or damage to the Bank’s reputation arising from a loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability of our information or assets.
Compliance Risk is the risk of loss incurred by not adhering to the applicable laws, rules and regulations, local and international best practice (including ethical standards) and our own internal standards.
Tax Risk is the risk of loss due to tax authorities successfully opposing the Bank’s position in tax returns.
Impact of Operational Risk¨ Operational risk is inherent in every banking
activity.
¨ Impact of Operational Risk – direct financial losses– indirect (revenue foregone as a result of business suspension)– damage to our reputation and franchise
¨ Objective is not to eliminate risk but reduce the risk as far as practical – avoid high frequency, high impact– mitigate or transfer high impact, low frequency– manage high frequency, low impact events for which the cost
of further risk reduction would exceed the reduction in losses– accept low frequency, low impact but monitor them
Source : UBS
Barings ( 1995)
¨ 233 year old bank collapses under $1.24 Billion loss
¨ Lack of Internal Controls
¨ No segregation of duties (Front and back office)
¨ Poor authorisation procedures
¨ Lack of management awareness of inherent risk
¨ Fraud
¨ Market risk
ING Financial Services¨ Business News – 23 April 2007
34-year-old Bernard Santos, a former corporate actions clerk at ING Financial Services in New York, was arrested in connection with an alleged $523,000 fraud.
From October 2005 to September 2006, Santos 'created fake client e-mails that requested payment of particular stock dividends, then transferred dividend payments to a bank account he controlled'.
Santos was accused of netting more than $523,000 from the alleged scam.
Allfirst/Allied Irish Bank
$674 million loss Major control deficiencies e.g. failure of back office to
confirm bogus options and failure of middle office to obtain independently sourced exchange rates
Missed opportunities to detect fraud e.g. poor supervision of rogue trader John Rusnak
Operational Risk Drivers
¨ High Profile Losses
¨ Reputational damage
¨ Regulatory Pressure
– SOX (Sarbanes – Oxley Act)
– Basle II
– MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive)
¨ Competitive Advantage
– Outsourcing / Offshoring
– Technology Advancement
– Business Growth (Trade volume and human capital)
– Product Complexity and Evolution
– Emerging Market Opportunity
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)
Enacted in response to a number of high-profile corporate and accounting scandals that resulted in a loss of public trust in corporate accounting and reporting practices (Enron).
Establishes new or enhanced standards for corporate accountability and penalties for corporate wrongdoing.
Section 404 - CEO and CFO attest that the firm's financial accounts and the controls over the processes used to produce them are sound.
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Credit, market, settlement and Operational Risk - IllustrationA trader purchases £1 million spot from Bank A. The current rate
is $1.5/£. This means two days from now, the trader will have to give $1.5 million and receive £1 million. The trader will then offload position in the market with another counterparty B.
Market Risk: If the spot rate changes to $1.4/£, loss for the trader = 1.5 – 1.4 = $100,000, assuming the deal with counterparty B is now stuck at 1.4.
Credit Risk: Say the next day, B goes bankrupt and the rate changes to $ 1.35/£. Instead of selling to B at 1.4, A will have to offload in the market to another bank, say at 1.35.
Loss = $50,000 (loss per unit = 1.4 – 1.35).
Settlement risk: If $1.5 million is delivered but £ 1 million is not received, this is settlement risk.
Operational risk: $1.5 million is wired to the wrong bank. After two days, the money is received and remitted to the right bank with compensatory interest. The loss is the amount due.