SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) – Cautionary tale or just plain dumb?

Adminovate ESG Demonstration

RiskSystem were delighted to sponsor the Adminovate conference held in Trinity College Dublin. RiskSystem CEO, Peter Cripwell, gave a live demo of the RiskSystem ESG solution which was very well received. Always nervy when relying on someone else’s wifi connection but the technology all worked perfectly. Kudos to our good friends in Fundrecs for organising […]

June 2, 2022July 4, 2022, by administrator

Irish Funds Annual Conference

RiskSystem were delighted to attend the Irish Funds annual conference held in the conference centre in Dublin. It was great to be back in person! It was the perfect opportunity to demonstrate RAPTOR and the RiskSystem ESG solution.

May 31, 2022July 4, 2022, by administrator

Muskenomics and Monolines

There are many noteworthy aspects to Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter, but from a risk management perspective, it is Mr Musk’s personal impact that is of most interest. To begin with, the mere threat of a reduction in his attention caused a drop in the value of Tesla, far in excess of the bid value […]

May 23, 2022May 30, 2022, by administrator

Long Gone

One of the psychic downsides of being a risk manager is that it is part of the job description to continually forecast “bad things happening” but being unable to take any satisfaction whatsoever when said forecasts become reality. A few weeks back, I was musing if yield curves were getting interesting again. In reality I […]

March 25, 2022May 30, 2022, by administrator

Reverse Stress Tests – Stress Tests Redux…

Reverse Stress Tests – Stress Tests Redux… As I have mentioned, one of the more “interesting” qualities of many risk management stress tests is that they are tests that cannot be failed. It is not a positive look. However, many folk, myself included, maintain that stress tests are a valuable tool in a risk […]

February 22, 2022May 30, 2022, by administrator

ESG Risk Management

“If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you” It is always fun to have something apocalyptic with which to start an article on ESG. The area, from a financial data perspective, is so new and so multi-dimensional, and so largely informed by opinion rather than actual facts that is quite possible […]

February 22, 2022May 30, 2022, by administrator

Stressing Stress Testing

Scenario analysis, stress testing, call it what you will, it is ubiquitous in financial risk management. Risk reports are littered, both literally and figuratively, with the detailed and sometimes not so detailed results of stress tests. The question that I would like to pose is, to what extent do all those numbers and graphs aid […]

February 11, 2022May 2, 2022, by administrator

HNY!

Happy New Year! Well actually it really was happy last year. I am guessing that it is fairly well known that equities had a fairly good year. The Euro Stoxx was up ~21% and the S&P was up ~27% in 2021. Commodities also had a bit of a bumper time with oil up 56% and […]

January 12, 2022, by administrator

SFDR – Still not a lot of fun…

So, the implementation of SFDR has been delayed again. Even if you were not paying attention, it was fairly clear that few were in a fit state to start compiling their taxonomy alignment, and those that claimed they were, required considerable creative effort. Not necessarily a wise move when reporting to the regulators. What has […]

December 2, 2021, by administrator

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