Financial institutions are increasingly using economic capital models to help determine the amount of capital they need to absorb unexpected losses. These models typically aggregate capital based on ...

Financial institutions can realize the full potential of economic capital as a planning tool to fulfill shareholder wealth if they are savvy in applying it, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

In the past few years, there have been several developments in the field of modeling the credit risk in banks’ commercial loan portfolios. Credit risk is essentially the possibility that a bank’s loan ...

If the human capital and quality of life theories are right, the Midwest would be a half-century into a century-long period ...

Twenty years ago Joshua Cooper Ramo, a consultant, first wrote about the “Beijing consensus”. The Washington consensus of financial liberalisation, floating currencies and openness to foreign capital ...