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Will CRE Bring Down the Bank?

All Publications >> Capital Management

CEO Chris Marrison discusses how the commercial real estate departments at banks can demonstrate they have a consolidated, credible view of the risk in their IPRE and construction portfolios. Read the full discussion that first appeared on the Banking New York website.

January 21st, 2010|

Risk Integrated Helps Financial Institutions Implement Fast, Accurate Portfolio Stress Testing

All Publications >> Stress Testing

Improvements to a facet of Risk Integrated's Specialized Finance System were launched today by Risk Integrated to help risk and portfolio managers stress portfolios of highly varied asset types, including retail and corporate lending and mortgages, CRE, equity and securitizations.

December 7th, 2009|

Risk Integrated Adds New Suite of MIS Reporting Tools

All Publications >> Portfolio Management

Risk Integrated announced today that it has added new functionality to its system for commercial real estate risk measurement. Its Specialized Finance System has been extended with a new suite of reporting tools to create an enterprise-level Management Information System.

November 9th, 2009|

Linking Stress Tests to the Real Economy

All Publications >> Stress Testing

In a whitepaper to appear in the financial press this autumn, Risk Integrated CEO, Chris Marrison, discusses a method for adding real world structural elements to risk models for almost any asset class. His approach is to adjust an asset's probability of default by using the ratio of expected net income in nominal and stressed cases.

September 25th, 2009|

Construction Lending

All Publications >> Risk Methodology

A shortened version of this paper will be appearing in the September issue of Banking Systems & Technology. In it Chris Marrison introduces the concept of using cashflow simulation to evaluate risk in construction projects. Two related commercial real estate projects are compared to show how cashflow simulation can give different risk results as compared to nominal and stress cases.

August 13th, 2009|

Basel Shines More Light on Operational Risk

All Publications >> Operational Risk

The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision has published two papers recently to clarify the important area of operational risk. Both Risk Integrated CEO, Chris Marrison, and the chairman of the Basel Committee and president of the Netherlands Bank, Nout Wellink provide their commentary in Project Finance International.

August 1st, 2009|

Capital After the First Shock

All Publications >> Capital Management

First published in GARP's Risk Professional, Risk Integrated CEO, Chris Marrison, shows how the financial crisis has revealed some of the shortcomings in Basel II banking regulations and what banks themselves should do to more accurately align their capital reserves to their risk profile.

July 23rd, 2009|

Viewpoint: Making Risk Capital More Stable

All Publications >> Capital Management

In the current volatile economic climate, risk models using mean reversion are best. They adjust for the state of the macroeconomy by counteracting the fluctuation in the standard financial ratios and provide more stable results.

July 1st, 2009|

Risk Integrated Receives Top 3 Ranking in Compliance Products

All Publications >> Implementation Technology

For the third year running, Risk Integrated has been recognized as one of the top three companies providing advanced solutions for implementing spreadsheets, enterprise-wide, at the world's largest financial institutions. Our Enterprise Spreadsheet Platform helps banks avoid the typical sources of problems by centralizing the spreadsheets most heavily relied upon, within a rock solid enterprise solution.

June 18th, 2009|

HSBC Installs the SFS to Manage Risk for CRE Assets

All Publications >> Case Studies

Commercial Property News featured an article online today discussing the advantages gained by HSBC with the implementation of Risk Integrated's Specialized Finance System to risk manage its commercial real estate assets.

April 9th, 2009|