Private capital markets are no longer a side story in global finance. Despite the sector’s insistence that it brings many benefits to the broader economy, the growing size of private capital markets ...

Dr. Knapton is the founder of Rocky Mountain CIO, a company providing fractional CIO services to small and medium sized businesses. Since publishing my article last year on measuring and managing tech ...

The last time global markets were rattled by EM-style political risks was in the early 2020s, when China launched a regulatory crackdown, decoupled from the West, and dealt with an ensuing debt crisis ...

Idiosyncratic risk is unique to specific investments like companies or industries. Systematic risk impacts all investments and is driven by macroeconomic factors. Mitigate idiosyncratic risk by ...

Accounting for unrealized market-value losses on banks’ securities and loan investments caused by the secular increase in interest rates that began in early 2022, I estimate that, as of September 30, ...

The mid-term review of Sendai Framework underscored that there are growing concerns on the acknowledgement of multi-hazard, multidimensional, and systemic nature of risk. The global risk science ...

Regulators should be paying more attention to the ballooning galaxy of nonbank financial institutions currently operating in global markets. The risks they pose to the financial system are not well ...

If hedge funds have increased systemic risk, we need to find out by how much and whether the benefits outweigh the risks, says Andrew Lo and Amir Khandani’s paper on quants (see story on page 42). But ...

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has created a modicum of urgency for regulators and others to search for potential sources of systemic risk in our financial markets. While most of these efforts ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the impact of financial inclusion (FI) on various bank risk ...