Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms (Wiley Finance) Reviews
Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms (Wiley Finance)
A classic book on credit risk management is updated to reflect the current economic crisis
Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis dissects the 2007-2008 credit crisis and provides solutions for professionals looking to better manage risk through modeling and new technology. This book is a complete update to Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, reflecting events stemming from the recent credit crisis.
Authors Anthony Saunders and Linda Allen address everything from the implications of new regulations to how the new rules will change everyday activity in the finance industry. They also provide techniques for modeling-credit scoring, structural, and reduced form models-while offering sound advice for stress testing credit risk models and when to accept or reject loans.
- Breaks down the latest credit risk measurement and modeling techniques and simplifies many of the technical and analytical details surrounding them
- Concentrates on the underlying economics to objectively evaluate new models
- Includes new chapters on how to prevent another crisis from occurring
Understanding credit risk measurement is now more important than ever. Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis will solidify your knowledge of this dynamic discipline.
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Optimal Control of Credit Risk (Advances in Computational Management Science)
Optimal Control of Credit Risk (Advances in Computational Management Science)
Optimal Control of Credit Risk presents an alternative methodology to deal with a financial problem that has not been well analyzed yet: the control of credit risk. Credit risk has become recently the center of interest of the financial community, with new instruments (such as Credit Risk Derivatives) and new methodologies (such as Credit Metrics) being developed. The recent literature has focused on the pricing of credit risk. On the other hand, practitioners tend to eliminate credit risk rather than price it. They do so via collateralization. The authors propose here a methodological basis for an optimal collateralization.
The monograph is organized as follows: Chapter 1 reviews the main avenues of literature related to our problem; Chapter 2 provides a brief overview of the main optimal control principles; and Chapter 3 presents the models and their setting.
In the remaining chapters, the authors propose two sets of programs. One set of programs will apply in cases where the information on the assets=value is readily available (full observation case), while the other applies when costly audits are needed in order to assess this value (partial observation case).
In either case, the modeling stage leads to a set of quasi-variational inequalities which the authors attempt to solve numerically in the simpler case of full observations. This is done in Chapter 6. Finally a simulation analysis is carried out in Chapter 7, in which the authors study the influence on the control process of changes in the different model parameters. This precedes a discussion on possible extensions in Chapter 8 and some concluding remarks in Section 9.
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The Bank Analyst’s Handbook: Money, Risk and Conjuring Tricks
The Bank Analyst’s Handbook: Money, Risk and Conjuring Tricks
It is not uncommon to meet professionals in financial services who have only a vague idea of what their colleagues actually do. The root cause is specialization and the subsequent development of jargon that makes communication between common specialists faster and more precise but is virtually impenetrable to everybody else.
The Bank Analyst’s Handbook provides a modern introduction to financial markets and intermediation. Individual subject areas are covered in a thorough but clear and succinct manner. The breadth of the author’s experience as a sell-side bank analyst is exploited to good effect to pull together these threads and create a coherent framework for the analysis of financial markets, whether these are in advanced economies or developing markets.
The Handbook is well-written and highly accessible. It builds on orthodox financial theory (with all of its flaws and controversies) but also highlights many of the real problems involved with translating such theory into practice. It can be appreciated at many different levels and this explains its wide target readership. The Bank Analyst’s Handbook:
- Bridges the gap between the more superficial introductory books and specialist works
- Covers all the important functions and subjects related to the financial services industry
- Provides a comprehensive overview for financial services professionals, business school students, consultants, accountants, auditors and legal practitioners, analysts and fund-managers and corporate managers.
“An excellent guide for any professionals who are coming into the banking industry. Extremely well-written, covering clearly and lucidly a range of topics which many bankers themselves don’t understand. I will make this book mandatory reading – no, make that studying – for anybody I hire to work as a financial sector consultant.”
—Chris Matten, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
“A great insight into the often murky and impenetrable world of banking… compulsory reading for analysts and investors alike.”
—Hugh Young, Managing Director, Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd
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Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
“Clark and Mingyuan start with an insightful and comprehensive description of how market participants contributed to the current crisis in the residential mortgage markets and the root causes of the crisis. They then proceed to develop a new residential mortgage lending system that can fix our broken markets because it addresses the root causes. The most impressive attributes of their new system is its commonsense return to the basics of traditional underwriting, combined with factors based on expert judgment and statistics and forward-looking attributes, all of which can be updated as markets change. The whole process is transparent to the borrower, lender, and investor.” —Dean Schultz, President and CEO, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
“The credit market crisis of 2008 has deeply affected the economic lives of every American. Yet, its underlying causes and its surface features are so complex that many observers and even policymakers barely understand them. This timely book will help guide nonspecialists through the workings of financial markets, particularly how they value, price, and distribute risk.” —Professor William Greene, Stern School of Business, New York University
“This book is a well-timed departure from much of what is being written today regarding the current foreclosure and credit crisis. Rather than attempting to blame lenders, borrowers, and/or federal regulators for the mortgage meltdown and the subsequent impacts on the financial markets, Clark and Mingyuan have proposed a groundbreaking new framework to revolutionize our current lending system. The book is built on the authors’ deep understanding of risk and the models used for credit analysis, and reflects their commitment to solve the problem. What I find most profound is their passion to develop a system that will facilitate new and better investment, especially in underserved urban markets that have been disproportionately impacted in the current crisis. I applaud the authors for this important work, and urge practitioners and theorists alike to investigate this new approach.” —John Talmage, President and CEO, Social Compact
“In the wake of the credit crisis, it is clear that transparency is the key to not repeating history. In Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders and Investors, Clark Abrahams and Mingyuan Zhang describe a new lending framework that seeks to connect all the players in the lending chain and provide a more holistic view of customers’ risk potential. As the financial services industry recovers from the mortgage meltdown, the Abrahams/Zhang lending model certainly offers some new food for thought to laymen and professionals alike.” —Maria Bruno-Britz, Senior Editor, Bank Systems & Technology magazine
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Credit: The Complete Guide to Pricing, Hedging and Risk Management Reviews
Credit: The Complete Guide to Pricing, Hedging and Risk Management
This comprehensive text provides a consistent firm-wide platform for pricing, hedging and risk management of credit across a broad range of product classes. The book: emphasizes fixed income instruments rather than loans, where stochastic future exposures are modelled accurately; examines loans, credit derivatives, interest rate derivatives with risky counterparties and convertible bonds; provides a thorough analysis of the pricing and hedging of basket credit derivatives and other credit contingent products; adapts credit derivative modelling techniques in order to price and hedge the credit component in fixed income derivatives; provides a practical discusssion of market frictions that impact credit trading; illustrates complex theoretical issues with a high number of examples, tables and figures that have been designed with the practitioner in mind; and discusses proofs and technicalities in the appendix of each chapter.
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Managing Credit Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge (Frontiers in Finance Series)
Managing Credit Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge (Frontiers in Finance Series)
The first full analysis of the latest advances in managing credit risk.
“Against a backdrop of radical industry evolution, the authors of Managing Credit Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge provide a concise and practical overview of these dramatic market and technical developments in a book which is destined to become a standard reference in the field.” -Thomas C. Wilson, Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
“Managing Credit Risk is an outstanding intellectual achievement. The authors have provided investors a comprehensive view of the state of credit analysis at the end of the millennium.” -Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts Journal.
“This book provides a comprehensive review of credit risk management that should be compulsory reading for not only those who are responsible for such risk but also for financial analysts and investors. An important addition to a significant but neglected subject.” -B.J. Ranson, Senior Vice-President, Portfolio Management, Bank of Montreal.
The phenomenal growth of the credit markets has spawned a powerful array of new instruments for managing credit risk, but until now there has been no single source of information and commentary on them. In Managing Credit Risk, three highly regarded professionals in the field have-for the first time-gathered state-of-the-art information on the tools, techniques, and vehicles available today for managing credit risk. Throughout the book they emphasize the actual practice of managing credit risk, and draw on the experience of leading experts who have successfully implemented credit risk solutions.
Starting with a lucid analysis of recent sweeping changes in the U.S. and global financial markets, this comprehensive resource documents the credit explosion and its remarkable opportunities-as well as its potentially devastating dangers. Analyzing the problems that have occurred during its growth period-S&L failures, business failures, bond and loan defaults, derivatives debacles-and the solutions that have enabled the credit market to continue expanding, Managing Credit Risk examines the major players and institutional settings for credit risk, including banks, insurance companies, pension funds, exchanges, clearinghouses, and rating agencies. By carefully delineating the different perspectives of each of these groups with respect to credit risk, this unique resource offers a comprehensive guide to the rapidly changing marketplace for credit products.
Managing Credit Risk describes all the major credit risk management tools with regard to their strengths and weaknesses, their fitness to specific financial situations, and their effectiveness. The instruments covered in each of these detailed sections include: credit risk models based on accounting data and market values; models based on stock price; consumer finance models; models for small business; models for real estate, emerging market corporations, and financial institutions; country risk models; and more. There is an important analysis of default results on corporate bonds and loans, and credit rating migration. In all cases, the authors emphasize that success will go to those firms that employ the right tools and create the right kind of risk culture within their organizations. A strong concluding chapter integrates emerging trends in the financial markets with the new methods in the context of the overall credit environment.
Concise, authoritative, and lucidly written, Managing Credit Risk is essential reading for bankers, regulators, and financial market professionals who face the great new challenges-and promising rewards-of credit risk management.
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Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century Reviews
Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
The U.S. home mortgage industry first formalized risk criteria in the 1920s and 1930s to determine which applicants should receive funds. Over the past eighty years, these formulae have become more sophisticated. Guy Stuart demonstrates that the very concepts on which lenders base their decisions reflect a set of social and political values about “who deserves what.” Stuart examines the fine line between licit choice and illicit discrimination, arguing that lenders, while eradicating blatantly discriminatory practices, have ignored the racial and economic-class biases that remain encoded in their decision processes. He explains why African Americans and Latinos continue to be at a disadvantage in gaining access to loans: discrimination, he finds, results from the interaction between the way lenders make decisions and the way they shape the social structure of the mortgage and housing markets.Mortgage lenders, Stuart contends, are embedded in and shape a social context that can best be understood in terms of rules, networks, and the production of space. Stuart’s history of lenders’ risk criteria reveals that they were synthesized from rules of thumb, cultural norms, and untested theories. In addition, his interviews with real estate and lending professionals in the Chicago housing market show us how the criteria are implemented today. Drawing on census and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for quantitative support, Stuart concludes with concrete policy proposals that take into account the social structure in which lenders make decisions.
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Counterparty Credit Risk: The new challenge for global financial markets (The Wiley Finance Series)
Counterparty Credit Risk: The new challenge for global financial markets (The Wiley Finance Series)
The first decade of the 21st Century has been disastrous for financial institutions, derivatives and risk management. Counterparty credit risk has become the key element of financial risk management, highlighted by the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers and failure of other high profile institutions such as Bear Sterns, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The sudden realisation of extensive counterparty risks has severely compromised the health of global financial markets. Counterparty risk is now a key problem for all financial institutions.
This book explains the emergence of counterparty risk during the recent credit crisis. The quantification of firm-wide credit exposure for trading desks and businesses is discussed alongside risk mitigation methods such as netting and collateral management (margining). Banks and other financial institutions have been recently developing their capabilities for pricing counterparty risk and these elements are considered in detail via a characterisation of credit value adjustment (CVA). The implications of an institution valuing their own default via debt value adjustment (DVA) are also considered at length. Hedging aspects, together with the associated instruments such as credit defaults swaps (CDSs) and contingent CDS (CCDS) are described in full.
A key feature of the credit crisis has been the realisation of wrong-way risks illustrated by the failure of monoline insurance companies. Wrong-way counterparty risks are addressed in detail in relation to interest rate, foreign exchange, commodity and, in particular, credit derivative products. Portfolio counterparty risk is covered, together with the regulatory aspects as defined by the Basel II capital requirements. The management of counterparty risk within an institution is also discussed in detail. Finally, the design and benefits of central clearing, a recent development to attempt to control the rapid growth of counterparty risk, is considered.
This book is unique in being practically focused but also covering the more technical aspects. It is an invaluable complete reference guide for any market practitioner with any responsibility or interest within the area of counterparty credit risk.
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Fair Lending Compliance: Intelligence and Implications for Credit Risk Management (Wiley and SAS Business Series) Reviews
Fair Lending Compliance: Intelligence and Implications for Credit Risk Management (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
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Fair Lending ComplianceIntelligence and Implications for Credit Risk Management
“Brilliant and informative. An in-depth look at innovative approaches to credit risk management written by industry practitioners. This publication will serve as an essential reference text for those who wish to make credit accessible to underserved consumers. It is comprehensive and clearly written.”
–The Honorable Rodney E. Hood
“Abrahams and Zhang’s timely treatise is a must-read for all those interested in the critical role of credit in the economy. They ably explore the intersection of credit access and credit risk, suggesting a hybrid approach of human judgment and computer models as the necessary path to balanced and fair lending. In an environment of rapidly changing consumer demographics, as well as regulatory reform initiatives, this book suggests new analytical models by which to provide credit to ensure compliance and to manage enterprise risk.”
–Frank A. Hirsch Jr., Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Financial Services Attorney and former general counsel for Centura Banks, Inc.
“This book tackles head on the market failures that our current risk management systems need to address. Not only do Abrahams and Zhang adeptly articulate why we can and should improve our systems, they provide the analytic evidence, and the steps toward implementations. Fair Lending Compliance fills a much-needed gap in the field. If implemented systematically, this thought leadership will lead to improvements in fair lending practices for all Americans.”
–Alyssa Stewart Lee, Deputy Director, Urban Markets Initiative The Brookings Institution
“[Fair Lending Compliance]…provides a unique blend of qualitative and quantitative guidance to two kinds of financial institutions: those that just need a little help in staying on the right side of complex fair housing regulations; and those that aspire to industry leadership in profitably and responsibly serving the unmet credit needs of diverse businesses and consumers in America’s emerging domestic markets.”
–Michael A. Stegman, PhD, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Duncan MacRae ’09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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I Need a Loan, But I Have Bad Credit – High Risk Credit Loans
Bad credit simply means a history of poor credit rating due to non-payment of loan. A person might end up with bad credit due to unforeseen circumstances and it is very difficult to avail further loan as the credit rating is lower with poor credit score. To tide over this type of situations, lenders provide bad credit loans to persons who have low credit rating and are hence unable to raise money from their lender anymore.
While providing bad credit loans, the lender analyses the reason, causes and various aspects leading to the loan going bad before lending further. The reason for the bad loan may be out of borrower’s hand. So, after analyzing, the lender decides on further loan and the interest to be charged. The interest in these cases is generally high as the credit rating is poor and the risk is also more.
Due to intense competition among various financial institutions, the market for bad credit loan has increased and has become competitive giving borrowers various options. There are numerous advisors who advise on various aspects of bad credit loan. One can take help of internet to get information regarding the same. Online bad credit loans are available which require some verification details of the borrower as the rating of the borrower has dipped.
Bad credit loans can fulfill many of borrower’s requirements from repairing house to vacation and hospitalization. The borrower must decide whether it is necessary to avail this type of loan as his credit rating is low and it may further drop on account of non-payment of current loan amount. He must set his priority right as further drop in credit rating might leave him with very low reputation with financial institutions when he actually requires loan for emergency and useful purpose.
Thus, a bad credit loan is boon as well as bane for a borrower and it depends on him how he uses this wonderful opportunity of financial freedom available to him.
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