GARP Risk Podcast
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GARP brings together the world's foremost risk practitioners, from around the globe, for in-depth insights and discussions on today's most important risk issues in finance and energy. Here is your chance to listen in.
GARP Risk Podcast
1w ago
Hear from Daniel Wagner, CEO of Country Risk Solutions, about the complexities of the global geopolitical risk landscape.
In these volatile and uncertain times, identifying, measuring and managing geopolitical risk is a daunting task. Everywhere we turn, geopolitical struggles are grabbing headlines, whether we’re talking about, for example, the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars, U.S.-China strategic relations, or Red Sea hostilities.
These multi-layered events are having a huge impact across the risk management spectrum, affecting everything from market risk to supply-chain risk to credit ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
2M ago
In this podcast, Julie Muckleroy, Global Banking Strategist from SAS, and Abraham Izquierdo, Managing Director of Trading and Treasury Risks at Grupo Financiero Banorte, explore the top risk management trends for 2024.
With the start of 2024, persistent high interest rates and inflation remain key concerns. Adding to these challenges are potential conflict escalation in the Middle East, threats to global shipping lanes, and historically low water levels in Panama, among others.
The fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the rapid growth of Generative AI are also being analyz ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
2M ago
Hear from Moody’s Analytics’ Cris deRitis about geopolitical risk, cybersecurity, political unease, supply-chain threats, and other key issues that will impact risk managers this year.
2023 was a hectic and extremely challenging year for risk managers. The U.S. regional banking crisis grabbed headlines, with failures being blamed on everything from poor risk culture and ineffective risk modeling to interest-rate volatility – and even to the speed at which news travels in the social media era.
Geopolitical risk and supply-chain risk also contributed to an environment of volatility and uncertain ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
5M ago
Hear veteran risk manager, advisor and professor Clifford Rossi’s viewpoints on trends, threats and opportunities in the commercial and residential real estate markets.
The past couple of years have been an extremely challenging time for risk practitioners charged with measuring and managing real estate risk. In both commercial real estate and residential real estate, concerns have been raised globally about interest rates, inflation and economic uncertainty. Indeed, in a recent Federal Reserve survey on salient risks – part of the Fed’s October Financial Stability Report – roughly 75 pe ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
6M ago
Hear from Wall Street veteran and author Aaron Brown about the impact of fast-evolving technology on risk management.
Financial institutions are now using everything from machine-learning modeling and generative AI to blockchain and public-key cryptography for risk monitoring, measurement and mitigation. What’s more, we can see on the horizon the development of other tools – like central bank digital currencies – that could further alter the landscape.
However, each of these technologies present their own set of challenges, and it’s important for risk managers to understand both their advantag ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
8M ago
In this podcast Zeynep Salman, Senior Business Solutions Manager at SAS, will explore the top trends and market practices for financial institutions as they adapt to digitizing credit decisioning.
We will dive deeply into key success factors for establishing innovative credit customer journeys while achieving successful business outcomes that keep the lending business profitable. We will also discuss how a country’s regulatory requirements and market dynamics can affect the transformation journey.
Link from today’s discussion can be found here:
The Value of Credit Risk Transformations and ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
8M ago
Is it possible for financial institutions to offer on-demand, superior customer experiences while making risk decisions in near real-time in an increasingly digital and interconnected world? That is the question we’ll explore in this podcast featuring Terisa Roberts, Global Solution Lead, Risk Modeling and Decisioning at SAS, and Bruce Erb, Director – Credit Risk Consulting, KPMG.
Traditional financial institutions are encountering additional hurdles, including fierce competition from agile newcomers, new regulatory demands for operational resiliency, and increased technology risk. In an age o ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
1y ago
Hear veteran risk manager, advisor and professor Clifford Rossi’s perspective on recent turmoil in the banking system, on where risk management fell short, and the profession’s readiness for future challenges.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and subsequent events inevitably invited comparisons with past crises. It was widely assumed that the damages of 2023 would be more contained than those of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. But they could similarly leave a long tail, with economic and regulatory repercussions well into the future.
A clear parallel between 2008 and 2023 is the s ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
1y ago
Welcome back for the conclusion of this special two-part podcast series featuring Dr. Donald van Deventer, Managing Director--Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions at SAS, and Professor Robert Jarrow of Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. We continue the discussion of the current banking climate as it relates to integrated balance sheet management — and specifically asset and liability management (ALM).
Part two of this series will tackle the following topics:
A further exploration of non-maturity demand deposit runoff
Deeper understanding of the estimated default probabil ..read more
GARP Risk Podcast
1y ago
Hear risk management prognostications from Cris deRitis, the deputy chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
Risk managers have been severely tested over the past 12 months. Rising interest rates, supply-chain problems, inflation and heightened geopolitical risk contributed to an environment of volatility and uncertainty, and many financial institutions grabbed headlines for all of the wrong reasons.
Operational risk disasters, for example, have cost large banks hundreds of millions of dollars. Credit risk modelers, meanwhile, are still trying to figure out the best path forward after wrongly for ..read more