Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Enterprise Risk Management: An Emerging Model for Building Shareholder Value
- Across industries and organizations, many are recognizing that risks are no longer merely hazards to be avoided but, in many cases, opportunities to be embraced. Enterprise risk management ERM has emerged as an important new business trend. ERM is a structured and disciplined approach aligning strategy, processes, people, technology, and...
- White papers 2001-04-18
- Getting to Grips with Business Continuity
- BCP has evolved into business continuity management BCM, a process that is driven from the top of the organisation. Business analysis is critical to the BCM process, providing a basis upon which all subsequent policies and practices are based. The initial stage is to understand the business, establishing what is...
- White papers 2001-02-14
- Operational Risk: Automate to Eliminate
- For a variety of reasons, operational risk is climbing financial institutions agendas. It is becoming increasingly clear that those firms which have risk sensitive processes and organisational structures will be able to reap benefits – in lower capital set-asides, improvement to the bottom line and, not least, reputation. Operating risk...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Business Continuity Planning: The Treasurer's Priorities
- For the treasury, disaster recovery / business continuity is not just a matter of maintaining and monitoring internal systems and processes. Nor is it solely a question of ensuring back-up facilities can be depended upon. The future of disaster preparedness is one of enhanced collaboration among financial institutions and more...
- White papers 2003-01-09
- The True Cost of Hedging
- Implementing a successful hedging program is notoriously difficult, and requires analytical tools not readily available to the average corporate treasurer, procurement manager, or risk manager. This article will demystify the practice of hedging by distilling it into five concrete steps. These steps have been discussed in detail. Thhis business process...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Hedging With Different Tenors
- Investors and corporate alike often argue on the optimal tenor with which to hedge their foreign exchange exposure. The issues are complex and varied. However for the purposes of this paper one assume that there is freedom of choice between the different tenors. This article quantifies the historical performance of...
- White papers 2003-09-03
- Treasury Risk, The Roadmap -1
- Treasury exposure can be defined as the impact on a firm's cash flow of changes in the financial price or value of an asset or liability. One therefore has to be able to identify an exposure before attempting to manage it. For all companies, active management of these risks can...
- White papers 2003-08-12
- Treasury Risk the Roadmap - Part Three
- To have a centralised treasury function in a company is usually an issue only for large diversified corporations. Many companies have decided to outsource the treasury function. To a greater or lesser extent this has many advantages, particularly in terms of having access to up to date technology and systems...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Treasury Risk the Roadmap - Part Two
- The formulation of a risk management policy will raise many key issues for a firm. It is to be noted that a policy will be unique to a particular organisation. There are no generic policies or limits. The policy should be consistent with the culture of a business and should...
- White papers 2003-09-02
- Using the Capital Markets to Mitigate Insurance Risks
- This transaction demonstrates how capital markets can be used effectively to reduce insurance risk exposure. Noteholders, in return for an attractive yield, have purchased the risks of certain natural catastrophes (up to a maximum of US$200,000,000) associated with the Originator's property and construction portfolio for a period of three years....
- White papers 2000-10-11
- Insuritization of Investments
- The financial and insurance industries are in the process of convergence. While for the retail segment this has happened by combining the distribution channels of banking and insurance products especially life insurance, the convergence in the industrial area has taken the route of transferring insurance risks into the capital markets...
- White papers 2002-02-27
- How ERM Can Improve Treasury Controls
- In the context of heightened awareness Enterprise Risk Management ERM has become a fashionable concept eagerly promoted by consultancy firms and just as eagerly consumed by management. But what is ERM and what relevance does it have for treasury? Every organisation raises capital and during the course of its...
- White papers 2003-01-16
- Risk Management Reinvented
- Recent research demonstrates the extent to which the treasurer's risk management role is becoming fully integrated with the corporate's strategic planning and goals. The wider range of financial and operational risks that are now falling within the treasurer's remit place a premium on selecting the right tools and techniques. Article...
- White papers 2003-01-16
- Measuring Liquidity Risk
- The ability to predict and plan for 'bad days' can be a powerful weapon in the treasurer's arsenal. But whilst treasurers typically have a feel and sense what is right or wrong in terms of amounts, prices and access to funds, this may ignore other events that might have an...
- White papers 2003-06-25
- Putting FAS 133 In Perspective
- FAS 133 is a substantial body of work, reflecting the inherent complexity of derivatives and the enormous range of possible hedging situations. It also reflects a Darwinian evolutionary process. The hedgers and their advisors repeatedly create hedges and derivative-like instruments structured to take maximum advantage of FAS 133's ambiguities and...
- White papers 2003-02-13
- Hedging Forecast Exposures Under IAS39
- As investors are growing more and more used to hearing about accounting irregularities, it has become clear that present financial reporting procedures need reassessment. For the great number of companies that have not been involved in so called 'creative accounting' it is of utmost importance that investors remain confident about...
- White papers 2003-07-16
- How Is Your FX Policy Adapting To Hedge Accounting?
- Hedge accounting does lead to increased volatility in earnings, this is likely to be offset by a concomitant increase in the increase in the volatility of the underlying exposure. Perhaps so, but even if the impact of IAS 39 on the P&L does turn out to be negligible, the same...
- White papers 2003-09-25
- The Budget Rate: Linking Risk Management to Business Management
- In this paper, to demonstrate the importance of both linking budget rates and hedging and phasing-in hedges, the consequences of hedging foreign currency revenue streams back into USD under three alternative hedging strategies. In each case, the budget rate is based on the rates of the forward contracts executed to...
- White papers 2000-02-15
- Operational Risk Transfer
- All corporations face risks. Until recently, risks were identified within business units. Now the trend is to analyse risks on an enterprise-wide basis. Risk transfer to the insurance sector has been widely used for many years. Even though operational risks were not always classified in this way, mechanisms to transfer...
- White papers 2003-09-11
Additional Resources
- Key Market Factors: Global Melt-Up, Consolidation or Correction?
- John Furlan submits:Thanks very much to followers and for comments. Factors and ratings below are my opinion of the equity markets’ current views, the “market’s mind,” how it responds to changing expectations of key fundamentals, not my personal views of them. Markets are very dynamic, and risk preferences, time...
- External links 2009-08-09
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
