Insurance category: 1053 books
by Elena Beccalli, Federica Poli
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
This book presents research from leading researchers in the European banking field to explore three key areas of banking. In Bank Risk, Governance and Regulation, the authors conduct micro- and macro- level analysis of banking risks and their determinants. They explore areas such as credit quality,...
Managing High-Stakes Risk
Toward a New Economics for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher. These challenges include environmental pollution, fragile financial systems and the threat of widespread geopolitical violence. This book suggests that a return to natural risk levels – those in accordance with naturally occurring background levels – is both desirable and achievable.
The Risk in Risk Management
Financial Organizations & the Problem of Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while believing they are safe and unique. This book presents a risk management framework to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large organizations. It suggests that some groups understand...
by Ioannis Tsiouras
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The organizations, of any type and size, conducting their activities are faced to uncertainties, due, mainly, to the factors and influences that reside in the external as well as in the internal context. The uncertainties, therefore, are sources of risks, which have an effect on the achievement of...
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook
A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2015 Edition) and Related Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2016 Edition) & Related Guidance, Fourth Edition, presents the latest on the electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic systems that provide safety functions that guard...
by Linda Peters
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This book explains the standard Real Options Analysis (ROA) literature in a straightforward, step by step manner without the use of complex mathematics. A lot of ROA literature is described through partial differential equations, probability density functions and simulation techniques, all of which...
The Manager’s Guide to Business Continuity Exercises
Testing Your Plan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
You designed your Business Continuity Plan to keep your business in business regardless of the forces of man and nature. But how do you know that the plan really works? Few companies can afford the recommended full-scale exercises several times a year. In The Manager’s Guide to Business Continuity...
Conduct Risk Management
Using a Behavioural Approach to Protect Your Board and Financial Services Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Conduct risk is at the core of behavioural regulation, a new approach to regulating financial services, whose new agencies and public prosecutors have spread rapidly across the world. Its prosecutors intervene assertively to challenge financial service providers to show clear evidence of a new customer-centric...
Building Effective Cybersecurity Programs
A Security Manager’s Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
You know by now that your company could not survive without the Internet. Not in today’s market. You are either part of the digital economy or reliant upon it. With critical information assets at risk, your company requires a state-of-the-art cybersecurity program. But how do you achieve the best...
by David Lindstedt, Mark Armout
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Have you begun to question traditional best practices in business continuity (BC)? Do you seem to be concentrating on documentation rather than preparedness? Compliance rather than recoverability? Do your efforts provide true business value? If you have these concerns, David Lindstedt and Mark Armour...
The ABA Consumer Guide to Asset Protection
A Step-by-Step Guide to Preserving Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The proliferation of lawsuits throughout society exposes business owners, physicians, and other professionals to enormous risk if they don’t adequately protect their personal and business assets. In The ABA Consumer Guide to Asset Protection, leading asset protection attorney Jeffrey Matsen provides...
Banking Reform in Nigeria
The Aftermath of the 2009 Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book captures Nigeria's crisis management experience and lessons learnt during the five-year tenure of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as CBN Governor. It provides a backdrop of the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US characterised by the Lehman Brothers debacle in 2007-08, which precipitated global economic and financial crisis.
Operational Risk Management in Banks
Regulatory, Organizational and Strategic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book focuses on several topical issues related to the operational risk management in bank: regulation, organisation and strategy. It analyses the connections between the different key-players involved in the operational risk process and the most relevant implications, both operational and strategic, arising from the implementation of the prudential framework.
Grey Data Analysis
Methods, Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book inclusively and systematically presents the fundamental methods, models and techniques of practical application of grey data analysis, bringing together the authors’ many years of theoretical exploration, real-life application, and teaching. It also reflects the majority of recent theoretical...