Financial risk management: Topics on bank's supervision and risk modeling

Abstract

Bank supervisory agencies are responsible for monitoring the financial conditions of commercial banks, enforcing related legislation and regulatory policy. Besides the tools enforced by the regulators, banks are usually enforced to develop their own internal models as a basis for measuring their market risk capital requirements, subject to strict quantitative and qualitative standards. The risks of a bank run may become disastrous and cause instability to the whole financial system. In order to mitigate a risk it is required by each bank to maintain differing levels of reserves for various forms of bank deposits.