The insurance industry is facing turbulent times and risk management is at the top of the agenda. This is particularly the case in Europe, where the introduction of Solvency II will drastically redesign the supervisory rules for regulatory capital for insurance companies.

This fully updated user-friendly second edition will quickly help you get to grips with risk management terms and techniques, and how they relate specifically to the insurance industry. It also demonstrates how Solvency II is already shaping the regulatory agenda and its likely impact on the insurance industry.

This book, edited by Ellen Davis, offers new modelling techniques for readers’ operational risk approaches and examines some of the more qualitative issues that are on the cutting edge of the industry.  The book consists of contributions from operational risk bank executives, regulators, and others in the industry addressing some of the quantitative and practical challenges that have arisen in recent years.

With practical insights from leading experts in the operational risk area, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their operational risk modelling and also understand issues that are at the cutting edge of the industry.

The Handbook of ALM in Banking provides a complete overview on good practices for asset and liability management in banking.

New regulations, which require a more consistent treatment of banking books and trading books as well as more aligned business strategies, call for the integrated management of assets and liabilities in banks.  At the same time, stronger separation of retail banking activities from investment banking is being proposed. Consequently, there is greater focus on efficient allocation of financial resources and respective risk management. Asset and liability management and transfer pricing play a pivotal role in this context. 

This book provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art asset and liability modelling, risk management techniques and transfer pricing. The book considers the aspects key to these issues: liquidity, funding, interest rates and balance sheet management.

Collateral management in monetising assets has never been more important, policy makers recognising this fact have started to pay increased attention to the complex collateral plumbing that is fundamental to lending and enabling growth in the economy.

Use this book to make sure your collateral management is at its most effective. Discover the importance of financial plumbing, gain a practical understanding of how financial collateral moves across jurisdictions and also how to navigate the future as rules and regulations for the global financial markets are redrawn.

"...This book weaves a rich and unique tapestry of a complex subject in an accessible manner."
Patrick Pearson, Acting Director of Financial Markets, European Commission

Written by insurers for insurers, The Solvency II Handbook: Practical Approaches to Implementation is a hugely important text for all practitioners in the field, as well as consultants and students. Focusing on implementation and the challenges, it'll help you to solve practical problems in your day to day job saving you time and costly mistakes.

As the title suggests this book focuses on the practical side of Solvency II and the actual implementation. The original best-selling Solvency II Handbook, published in 2009, focused on the theory with a detailed examination of the main requirements and impacts of Solvency II to insurers and reinsurers. Both books complement each other and should be read by anyone dealing with Solvency II in any capacity. Read more about the original Solvency II Handbook here.

Editors Thomas Kaiser (KPMG and Goethe University) and Petra Merl (UniCredit Bank AG) have assembled a team of industry experts who provide an introduction into the brave new world of reputational risk in the financial industry.

Reputational Risk Management in Financial Institutions charts the history and evolution of this relatively new discipline, discussing how it is managed, mitigated, and in particular regulated. Readers will receive practical guidance regarding how to use best practice to implement a reputational risk management framework, thus both anticipating possible regulatory requirements and improving the decision-making process of the bank or financial institution at which they work.

Around the world, central bankers, regulators and governments have responded to the financial crisis with new regulation and legislation. The cornerstone of this global initiative to contain risk is Basel III – sweeping new regulatory standards for banks on capital adequacy and liquidity.

These new standards will define markets and their practices for decades to come. Already, they are reshaping institutions, business models and balance sheets.

Understanding Basel III and the thinking behind it is essential for market participants and for those charged with implementing the standards. In Basel III and Beyond, the first book-length treatment of Basel III, editors Mario Quagliariello of the European Banking Authority and Francesco Cannata of the Bank of Italy have assembled contributors from regulators and central banks involved in preparing the standards including a foreword from Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank.

Key chapters describe and analyse the new elements of Basel III, as well as detailing important revisions to the 2004 accord. Written by the regulators themselves, Basel III and Beyond is the essential guide to the new global banking standards.

The insurance industry is facing turbulent times and risk management is at the top of the agenda. This is particularly the case in Europe, where the introduction of Solvency II will drastically redesign the supervisory rules for regulatory capital for insurance companies.

This fully updated user-friendly second edition will quickly help you get to grips with risk management terms and techniques, and how they relate specifically to the insurance industry. It also demonstrates how Solvency II is already shaping the regulatory agenda and its likely impact on the insurance industry.

The Handbook of Corporate Financial Risk Management, written by Stanley Myint and Fabrice Famery, guides you intuitively through all possible risk-related problems you will encounter on a regular basis, leading from one component of corporate risk management to the next until you have all the solutions you require. Each section of the book contains a collection of real-life case studies which BNP Paribas have worked on, beginning with the problems these cases exhibited and concluding with the solutions BNP Paribas found best resolved these.

"This topical book could not have come at a better moment. It illustrates the power of a systematic, quantitative and analytical approach to Financial Risk, which is even more important in these turbulent times."
Thomas Bartelt, Head of Financial Risk Controlling, Volkswagen

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, global macro was one of the few investment strategies that delivered positive returns. Since then global markets have been driven almost solely by macroeconomic decision making; more so than at any time in recent years.

Global Macro: Theory and Practice, edited by industry expert Andrew Rozanov, is the first comprehensive handbook and authoritative guide focusing exclusively on global macro strategies, designed for use by investment professionals involved in constructing and managing institutional portfolios.

"Global Macro: Theory and Practice is an important primer for institutions seeking to understand macro from two sides of the looking glass: the view of practitioners like myself and the view of investors. The broad range of topics covered – discretionary versus systematic approaches, the role of risk management in macro, the role of policy analysis and prediction in macro, among others — will draw institutional investors into the stimulating world I have lived and breathed for three decades."
– PAUL TUDOR JONES II, Co-Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Tudor Investment Corporation

This book by industry leader Vincent Kaminski provides an exhaustive description of the energy markets, covering both the fundamentals of the production, transportation, storage and distribution processes, as well as market design and linkages between different markets. The book also describes the most important types of transactions and instruments used in these markets.

At over 960 pages this really is a tour de force. You can check out the introduction from the book here

Typically literature on the subject of interest rate modelling is based on the assumption of risk-free interest rate markets. Clearly this assumption no longer holds water. As a consequence of the crisis, market participants have been alerted to risk factors which had previously been neglected. This knowledge has led to important changes in the patterns of market data and to new approaches in interest rate modelling.

As interest rate markets continue to innovate and expand in this new landscape, it is becoming increasingly important to remain up-to-date with the latest practical and theoretical developments. In Interest Rate Modelling after the Financial Crisis, Massimo Morini and Marco Bianchetti address and explicate these changes, gathering the latest ideas on post-crisis market modelling and applying new methods to market data and market practice.