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OTC Conseil Americas
Newsletter #13 - april 2010

Editorial

This month, we travel further on the road to risk management.
We begin with a new topic: natural catastrophes such as volcano eruptions, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, violent typhoons, etc. All seem to be jostling at the gate!
Beyond risks linked to catastrophe losses, which is handled by the insurance realm majority of the time, there is often a direct impact on the management of investment credit portfolios.
In this month's first article, we offer an analytical and managerial approach to credit portfolios as borrowers are subject to these natural catastrophes.

As always, the full articles are available on our website.


Fayna Lionet
OTC Conseil Americas

Natural catastrophe risk management

Within the large family of bank risks, catastrophic risk is usually considered an operational risk, likely to affect bank business by damaging it physically. A financial institution can also be exposed in a more indirect way, through numerous intermediary connections to the economic system.

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