A new proposal for collection and generation of information on financial institutions' risk: The case of derivatives
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Received (in revised form): 15th February, 2007
Gilneu F. A. Vivan is Head of the Off-Site Department of Banco Central do Brasil, holds an MSc in Economics and is a specialist in the analysis of banking system risk. Benjamin M. Tabak is Senior Advisor of the Research Department of Banco Central do Brasil, holds a PhD in Economics from Universidade de Brasilia and has published papers in portfolio and risk management areas in a variety of financial and economics journals.
Practical applications The following sections contain reports that reproduce the proposed information sets for linear and nonlinear instruments. The comments on the use of each one and the results of some tests are also presented.
Abstract
Journal of Derivatives & Hedge Funds, Vol. 13 No. 2, 2007, pp. 147–169 r 2007 Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 1753-9641 $30.00
This paper aims at providing a new alternative for the collection of information on risks taken by financial institutions, which enables the calculation of risk tools usually used in risk management, such as VaR and stress tests. This approach should help risk managers, off-site supervisors and academics in assessing the potential risks in financial institutions principally due to derivatives positions. The basic idea, for linear financial instruments, like that traditionally used by the management risk systems, is to reduce positions in risk factors and then map the vertices. For the nonlinear financial instruments, all the positions in different types of options — European, American, exotic, etc — are represented as plain vanilla European options or replicated by portfolios of plain vanilla European options. The methodology was applied to Brazil, within the worst scenarios during the period from 1994 to 2004,
and the paper demonstrates that the proposed approach captured the risks satisfactorily in the analysed portfolios, including the risk existent in the strategies involving options, given an accepted error margin. This approach could be useful for regulators, risk managers, financial institutions and risk management modelling as it can be used as an input in general risk management models. Journal of Derivatives & Hedge Funds (2007) 13, 147–169. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jdhf.1850061 Keywords: derivatives; information; risk management; off-site supervision; systemic risk ‘The end result is that a major component of bank profitability over the last decade does not appear in any consistent way in the financial reports of banks. Shareholders and financial analysts find it difficult to assess bank performance, while regulators and rating
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agencies face problems when they try to determine the riskiness of bank activities. Likewise the true risk profile of some nonblank corporation may also be unclear from their financial reports.’ (Crouhy et al.)1
INTRODUCTION The analysis of accounting and non-accounting information provided by financial institutions to the supervisory bodies is one of the main to
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