Risk management in banking - Jol Bessis

Now in its third edition, this seminal work by Joël Bessis has been comprehensively revised and updated to take into account the changing face of risk management.

Fully restructured, featuring new material and discussions on new financial products, derivatives, Basel II, credit models based on time intensity models, implementing risk systems and intensity models of default, it also includes a section on Subprime that discusses the crisis mechanisms and makes numerous references throughout to the recent stressed financial conditions. The book postulates that risk management practices and techniques remain of major importance, if implemented in a sound economic way with proper governance.

Risk Management in Banking, Third Edition
considers all aspects of risk management emphasizing the need to understand conceptual and implementation issues of risk management and examining the latest techniques and practical issues, including:

• Asset–Liability Management


• Risk regulations and accounting standards


• Market risk models


• Credit risk models


• Dependencies modeling


• Credit portfolio models


• Capital Allocation


• Risk–adjusted performance


• Credit portfolio management

Building on the considerable success of this classic work, the third edition is an indispensable text for MBA students, practitioners in banking and financial services, bank regulators and auditors alike.