B. Financial risk management

The Old New Financial Risk

Community financial institutions, such as microlending or housing development organizations, can be assisted in financial management, budgeting, risk assessment and risk mitigation in order for their institutions to be sustainable over time.

Enhance the eurozone s internal financial circuit breakers to reduce the risk of disruptive financial feedback loops and destabilizing multiple equilibria and

This would reduce the severity and risk of financial crises by limiting currency mismatches.

Several ministers pointed out that the risk of international financial instability persisted and that it was necessary to correct global imbalances to reduce that risk.

Fourth, the role of rating agencies needs to be rethought, with more regulation and competition introduced. Finally, liquidity risk should be properly assessed in risk management models, and both banks and other financial institutions should better price and manage such risk most financial crises are triggered by maturity mismatches.

Therefore, project sponsors, as the main promoters of the project, assume the highest financial risk.

The countries and international agencies concerned should also undertake joint efforts to tighten control on international financial flows and to reduce financial risk.

The second condition for broad based currency depreciation is financial markets' willingness to assume and maintain risk postures that are not yet validated by the economy's fundamentals. With central banks the de facto best friend of financial markets these days pushing for increasingly large financial risk taking (as a means of stimulating productive economic risk taking), this is no easy feat.

Malaysia and many other countries in Asia had run that risk during the 1997 financial crisis, prompted by the activities of financial speculators in an unregulated international financial system.

(vi) Taking informed, transparent and effective decisions in all areas, including performance, risk and financial management

8. How an enterprise s environmental performance affects its financial health and how financial information relating to such performance can be used to assess environmental risk, and the management of such risk, are often matters of concern to investors and their advisers.

The financial risk associated with retailing this high risk long term loan product in the prevailing economy of the occupied Palestinian territory was too great to merit expansion.

Those mechanisms enabled the Agency to lend to target groups at minimal risk, while increasing financial sustainability.

debt service coverage reduces the financial risk to investors and translates into lower borrowing costs for the borrower.

High levels of out of pocket spending dominate and are indicative of limited risk pooling and financial protection.

The connection between financial risk and asset price swings emerges from the use of a new approach Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) to understanding risk and fluctuations in asset markets. This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.

2 The risk control indicators comply with the relevant stipulations and the financial status and compliance status are sound

Article 100 The method of calculation of a risk unit and the plan for managing the catastrophe risk of an insurance company shall be approved by the financial supervision and regulation department.

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The Committee points out that the downward trend in the balance constitutes a financial risk to the Programme after 1999.

Financial players use derivatives to transfer risk one player assumes the risk of, say, euro fluctuation, but doesn t want yen risk, while for another, it s the opposite. So the former promises to deliver euros next June 1, while the latter promises to deliver yen.

Support was given to financial institutions for both credit risk and financial management, and importance was attached to implementing the programme in rural areas and to promoting local employment opportunities.

After the financial crisis, the United States enacted the Dodd Frank Act to overhaul American financial regulation, with the aim of reducing the risk of another financial meltdown. But it did nothing to reform repo lending arguably the weakest link in the financial chain.

94. In its report on the United Nations for the financial period ended 31 December 1993, the Board had recommended that the Administration undertake an information systems risk analysis. The Administration indicated that a formal risk analysis would require significant human and financial resources that were not available.

Financial firms thus need strong internal risk measurement and control systems to ensure that the sum of the activities of their managers individually does not expose the firm as a whole to excessive risk.

Nitroglycerine addresses the risk of circulatory collapse. In economic terms, that is what was needed following the 2008 global financial crisis.

(m) Review the United Nations system of internal control, including financial, operational, compliance controls and evaluate the effectiveness of risk management

(g) Preservation of a high quality institutional image and signature in an environment of increased levels of financial and operational risk.

He noted that defining a risk universe was difficult, and concurred that audit analysis should not be restricted to financial impact.

A comprehensive assessment of a country s macro investment risk requires looking systematically at the stocks and flows of the national account to capture all dangers, including risk in the financial system and the real economy, as well as wider risk issues. As we have seen in recent crises, private risk taking and debt are socialized when a crisis occurs.

It will reinforce convergence expectations among financial market participants, which will translate into lower risk premia for investors. Lower risk also will bring inflation expectations down and reduce interest rates, which will in turn speed up the compression of Polish government bond yields to comparable EU levels, increasing financial stability.

The financial assets which have suffered from an impairment loss in any single amount shall not be included in any combination of financial assets with similar risk features for any impairment test.

In October 2004, the federal Government lifted a financial restriction associated with the Department of Education's so called high risk grantee status.

The Caribbean Community calls upon the multinational financial institutions to support the proposals for the mitigation of such risk in small States.

Second, China and Russia have financial systems that lack transparency, while Brazil and India are financially underdeveloped, putting further integration in the world economy at risk and increasing prospects for a financial crisis.

Users of financial information and participants in the marketplace need information on foreseeable material risks, including risks specific to industries or geographical areas, dependence on certain commodities, financial market risk and derivative risks.

It was recommended that the design and implementation of prudential regulations for financial markets, in particular those trading derivative products, and financial institutions should enhance transparency, govern risk taking and foster orderly marketplaces.

This systemic risk a financial shock leading to severe economic contagion was supposed to be reduced by securitization. Financial globalization meant that banks no longer held assets like mortgages on their books, but packaged them in asset backed securities that were sold to investors in capital markets worldwide, thereby distributing risk more widely.

Equally problematic is the fact that, while the clearinghouse and its participants can net wins and losses to reduce risk for those inside the clearinghouse, the clearinghouse does not assuredly eliminate the basic risk facing the entire financial system. Often, it merely transfers that risk to creditors outside the clearinghouse.

The relatively low interest rates on both short term and long term bonds are now causing both individual investors and institutional fund managers to assume duration risk and credit quality risk in the hope of achieving higher returns. That was the same risk strategy that preceded the financial crisis in 2008.

These crucial issues should be put on the agenda of the G7 finance ministers to prevent a serious backlash against financial globalization and reduce the risk that financial turmoil will lead to severe economic damage.

Where, upon independent test, the financial asset (including those financial assets with significant single amounts and those with insignificant amounts) has not been impaired, it shall be included in a combination of financial assets with similar risk features so as to conduct another impairment test.

We did not wish to risk a serious financial crisis for the Organization, which would have resulted from the failure to adopt a budget.