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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457669903321

Autore

Chorafas Dimitris N

Titolo

Risk management technology in financial services [[electronic resource] ] : risk control, stress testing, models, and IT systems and structures / / Dimitris N. Chorafas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, MA. ; ; Oxford, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007

ISBN

1-281-01474-5

9786611014742

0-08-049809-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Elsevier finance

Disciplina

332.10684

Soggetti

Financial services industry - Information resources management

Financial services industry

Risk management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Risk Management Technology in Financial Services; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART 1 Innovation, risk and return; Chapter 1 Innovation in finance; 1.1 Financial systems and innovation; 1.2 Laboratories for brilliant new ideas; 1.3 Challenging the obvious; 1.4 Strategic choices and unintended consequences; 1.5 Salient problems and management decisions; 1.6 Business leadership; 1.7 Information technology. Does it really matter?; Chapter 2 What is meant by risk management?; 2.1 Risk and risk factors; 2.2 Risk management

2.3 Types of risk and their transparency 2.4 Board of directors and risk organization; 2.5 Internal control. The feedback channel; 2.6 Auditing and risk management; Chapter 3 Complexity of risk control with derivatives; 3.1 Derivatives defined; 3.2 Derivatives exposure; 3.3 110 trillion in notional principal amount; 3.4 Derivative instruments for credit risk transfer; 3.5 Proactive risk management; 3.6 Levels of inspection, demodulation and stress testing; 3.7 Effective management control starts at the top; Chapter 4 Integrating risk management



through an enterprise architecture

4.1 Choosing a risk-based architecture 4.2 Funding tactics. An enterprise risk management application; 4.3 Developing an integrated risk management system; 4.4 End-to-end architectural solutions; 4.5 Integrating stress testing into enterprise risk management; 4.6 The importance of the human component should never be underrated; Chapter 5 Case studies on big product problems that went unattended; 5.1 The role of character in the control of risk; 5.2 British Petroleum. Pipeline risk; 5.3 Telecom Italia. Political risk; 5.4 Ford and General Motors. Management risk

5.5 EADS. Management risk European style 5.6 The product problems of Long-Term Capital Management; 5.7 Legal risk embedded in financial products; PART 2 Risk control methodology and advanced models; Chapter 6 A methodology for risk management; 6.1 The sense of having a methodology; 6.2 Applying the physicist's method; 6.3 Dissent, negation and reconstruction; 6.4 Credit risk methodology. A practical example; 6.5 A methodology for integrated risk control; 6.6 Organization and structure for risk management; Chapter 7 The contribution of models to experimentation; 7.1 Introduction

7.2 The development of mathematical science 7.3 Abstraction, analysis, signs and rules; 7.4 Notion of a mathematical system; 7.5 Modelling discipline and analytics; 7.6 From classical testing to stress testing; 7.7 Anomalies and asymmetries; Chapter 8 Simulation; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The art of simulation; 8.3 The Monte Carlo method; 8.4 Practical applications of Monte Carlo; 8.5 Simulation studies and system engineering; 8.6 Simulation's deliverables; Chapter 9 Using knowledge engineering for risk control; 9.1 Knowledge engineering, object knowledge and metaknowledge

9.2 Errors and uncertainty can be both friend and foe

Sommario/riassunto

Written for professionals in financial services with responsibility for IT and risk management, Dimitris Chorafas surveys the methodology required and IT systems and structures to support it according to Basel II. The book is consistent with the risk management certification process of GARP, as well as the accounting rules of IFRS, based on research the author conducted with IASB. The author provices an in-depth discussion of the types of risk, stress analysis and the use of scenarios, mathematical models, and IT systems and infrastructure requirements.* Written in clear, straightforward



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968203503321

Autore

Sluglett Peter

Titolo

Britain in Iraq : contriving king and country / / by Peter Sluglett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2007

ISBN

9786612605116

9780755612345

0755612345

9781282605114

1282605119

9780857711069

0857711067

9786000009304

6000009305

9781435603516

1435603516

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

327.410567

Soggetti

British - Iraq - History - 20th century

20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000

Iraq History 1921-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Transliteration; Abbreviations; Foreword by Albert Hourani; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Maps; Introduction; 1. From the Outbreak of War to the Cairo Conference, 1914-1921; 2.From the Cairo Conference to the Ratification of the Anglo-Iraq Treaty, March 1921-September 1924; 3. Oil, Boundaries and Insolvency: Political and Economic Problems, 1924-1926; 4. The Years of Frustration, 1926-1929; 5. Prelude to Independence, 1929-1932; 6. Tenurial, Revenue and Tribal Policy

7. Defence and Internal Security: The Role of the Iraq Army and the RAF8. Educational Policy; 9. The Mandate and its Legacy; Appendix 1: A Note on Shi'i Politics; Appendix 2: Tenurial and Taxation Arrangements



in 'Amara 'Liwa' under the Mandate; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Persons and Places; Index of Subjects and Themes

Sommario/riassunto

"As the attention of the world is focused on the increasingly beleaguered U.S. and U.K. occupation of Iraq, Iraq expert and Middle East historian Peter Sluglett revisits Britain's creation of Iraq in the twentieth century in this thoroughly revised edition of his classic text 'Britain in Iraq'. Sluglett presents a comprehensive history of British policy towards Iraq from the beginnings of the Mesopotamia campaign in 1914 through the creation of Iraq in 1920 and the period of the mandate until Iraqi independence in 1932. As well as being a history of Britain's relations with Iraq, the book also traces the implementation of British policies in a number of key areas and the creation of the principal institutions of the state. As such it is an important contribution to both Middle Eastern and British imperial history, and crucial to our understanding of Iraq today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.