What is the main benefit of determining Risk Capacity?
A.Calibrating and expressing risk boundaries commensurate with the governing body’s comfort level
B. Enabling the governing body to understand the level of risk that the firm’s resources can tolerate
C. Detailing measurement, identification, and cascading of the risk appetite
D. Policing the risk appetite
A sensitivity stress test is a stress test that:
A.is designed to examine the correlations in the risk exposure of the firm, to analyze the impact of a material threat across multiple portfolios
B.is applied to more than just the credit, market and operational attributes of the firm
C.requires the identification of scenarios that could cause the failure of the business
D.is based on an abstract concept, focusing upon one parameter or one part of a portfolio
Match the following risk components to its attributes:
1. [[1]] : enabling the governing body to understand the level of risk that the firm's resources can tolerate;
2. [[2]] : detailed measurement, identification, and detailed cascade of the risk appetite
3. [[3]]: measurement of adequate return for risk
4. [[4]]: policing of risk appetite
5. [[5]]: calibration and expression of risk boundaries commensurate with the governing body's comfort level
Risk Capacity
Risk Policies
Risk Pricing
Culture and Incentives
Risk Appetite
Which elements of Risk Framework facilitate engagement of the entire organization
A.Risk Capacity
B.Risk Appetite
C.Risk Policies
D.Risk Pricing
E.Culture and Incentives
____________ is the ability to withstand the worst-case outcome that could arise from risk taking planned or already assumed
A.Risk appetite
B.Risk Policy
C.Risk Capacity
D.Risk Pricing
E.Risk Management
Primary importance of the bank:
A.safe system for facilitating payment flows
B.Maturity transformation deposits
C.Currency exchange
D.amplifier of available investment
Fundamental changes introduced as a result of 2008 liquidity crisis include:
A.diminish the implicit state guarantee
B.standards required to be considered as prudent management;
C.Reduce leverage and improve liquidity
D.Introduce standard for formulating Risk appetite
This Key Resource represents the bottom line and protect and grow the capital base.
A.Players
B.Profitability/Net Earnings
C.Reputation
D.Liquidity
Elements of net earnings include:
A.Sustainable sources
B.Growth
C.Costs
D.Diversification
IN categorizing the threats to Key Resources, Events with high frequency but relatively small impact, often referred to as 'expected loss' are referred to as Improbables .
Evensts of these nature are characterized by the AAA standard probability and cannot be avoided. The governing body will seek to balance the expense of carrying capital with the scale needed to absorb losses in this range. If a firm is able to emerge from such a crisis having survived unaided, its reputation, and that of its management will be enhanced
A.Inevitables
B.Improbables
C.Intermediates
D.Infinites
Which of the following is true about Stress Testing?
A.a range of tools that can help quantify the impact of threats to key resources
B.The outputs are used by a CRO to aid discussion on the vulnerability of key resources to a range of events
C.It sets the input choices and interprets the results
D.It assist in the understanding of risk capacity and the formulation of risk appetite.
_____________ Model is historic data related to the performance of the asset class(es) or portfolio used to inform the model predictions of future behavior
A.Sensitivity
B.Judgment based
C.Statistical
D.Enterprise-wide
Statistical Models need to consider the following assumptions
A.appropriateness of the data
B.macro or local economic and other indicators
C.length of the time series of the data
D.vulnerability of each component of the portfolio
E.severity of the stress being applied
F.length of the period of impact
____________ Models is founded on applying expert knowledge of the underlying asset class(es) or portfolio and experience about past performance to build a specific impact assessment.
A.Judgment-based
B.Enterprise-wide
C.Statistical
D.Scenario - based
Key assumptions that need to be considered in Judgment based models include:
A.macro or local economic and other indicators
B.appropriate range of movement
C.length of the time series of the data
D.vulnerability of each component of the portfolio to the indicators
E.link to severity of impact
This method is an abstract concept, focusing upon one parameter or one part of a portfolio
A.Scenario stress testing;
B.Sensitivity stress testing
C.Enterprise-wide stress testing
D.Reverse stress testing
This is the label assigned to stress tests designed to examine the correlations in the risk exposure of the firm, to analyze the impact of a material threat across multiple or all portfolios or processes.
A.Sensitivity Stress Testing
B.Enterprise-wide stress testing
C.Scenario Stress Testing
D.Reverse stress testing.
__________________ simulation seeks to replicate a past extreme event and assess its impact on the current portfolio,
A.Scenario
B.Historical
C.Economic
D.Firm wide
This type of stress test applies the methodologies to more than just the credit, market and operational risk attributes of the firm.
A.Enterprise Wide
B.Scenario
C.Sensitivity
D.Reverse
A firm-wide stress test involves making assumptions about the impact on:
A.Income
B.Costs
C.Customer
D.Liquidity
E.Credit losses
F.Provisions and reserves
G.Reputation
H.Operational losses
This form of stress testing requires the identification of scenarios that could cause the failure of the business.
A.Scenario
B.Sensitivity
C.Enterprise Wide
D.Reverse
Which statements are true about Economic Capital ?
A.helps establish weaknesses in the business model construct
B.amount of capital the firm should have to support any risks it assumes
C.requires serious examination of assumptions and defenses designed to avoid or mitigate such business killing threats
D.useful tool is helping to identify risk capacity and to both calibrate and measure compliance with, risk appetite.
Which are options to determine the scale of risk capacity
A.The firm's capital and reserves as expressed in the financial accounts can be considered the available capital for economic use or risk capacity
B.Risk capacity can be determined by employing sensitivity stress testing to calculate the likely discounts needed in the distressed sale of assets
C.None of the above
D.All of the above
Actions available to management and the governing body to align the strategy with risk capacity are:
A.Reduce scale of risks
B.Increase capital infusion
C.Improve quality of risks
D.Improve risk mitigation quantity or quality increased collateral
E.Improve stakeholder confidence
F.File for bankruptcy
G.Change the portfolio or business mix
H.Improve retained earnings